First Responders Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833104858
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020
- Location
- Northlake, TX, USA
- Phone
- 8173437706
- Rating
- 53
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hot Line, Crisis Intervention Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,400
- Expenses
- $2,560
- Assets
- $430
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
People named in this filing
- William Ross (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The First Responders Foundation is committed to the mental health and healing of first responders across the United States.
What it reported doing in 2020
Maintained an online website with instructions for help, and contact information to obtain help for mental illness.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 23
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.3%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 21.9%; rating input score 22
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.7%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.3% of revenue deployed · 21.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $560 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.