Franklin Fire Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232151586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Chambersburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7172638600
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,472,471
- Expenses
- $364,960
- Assets
- $7,366,717
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES L HULL JR (President)
- WILLIAM KELLY (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES L HULL JR (President): $19,863 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide Fire Protection, Fire Suppression and Firefighting Equipment to the community through the efforts and help of Volunteers and Volunteer Firefighters.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided Fire Protection, Emergency Services, Fire Suppression, and the Equipment Required to provide these services to the Community through the efforts of Volunteers and Volunteer Fire Fighters
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 80
- Sustainability: 91
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 18.4%; rating input score 18
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $37.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 75.2%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 20.18; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.4%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.2% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 18.4% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $280K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 23 current checks pass · 3 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX FeesForServicesManagement column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.