Fraternal Order of Police South Jersey Lodge 56
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237373385
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- West Berlin, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 8567687191
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,431
- Expenses
- $85,072
- Assets
- $122,146
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN BRANAGAN (President)
- DEAN FILLARI (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- KEVIN BRANAGAN (President)
- DEAN FILLARI (Vice President)
- WAYNE BONFIGLIO (REC. SEC.)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To support and defend the Constitution of the United States; to inculcate loyalty and allegiance to the United States of America; to promote and foster the enforcement of law and order; to improve the individual and collective proficiency of our members in the performance of their duties; to encourage fraternal, educational, charitable and social activities among law enforcement officers; to advocate and strive for uniform application of the civil service merit system for appointment and promotion; to support the improvement of the standard of living and working conditions of the law enforcement profession through every legal and ethical means available; to create and maintain tradition of esprit de corps insuring fidelity to duty under all conditions and circumstances; to cultivate a spirit of fraternalism and mutual helpfulness among our members and the people we serve; to increase the efficiency of the law enforcement profession and thus more firmly to establish the confidence of th
What it reported doing in 2025
Our lodge of over 300 members supports numerous charitable endeavors such as the George Bowman Fund of the NJ State FOP, which benefits the widows and families of slain law enforcement officers. Locally, we contribute generously to the Bancraft School in Haddonfield which provides care to children with autism, brain injuries and developmental disabilities. Our High School scholarship program provides a graduating high school senior from each of the high schools within our lodges jursisdiction (Shawnee HS in Medford, Eastern HS in voorehees, Triton HS in Runnemede, Overbrook HS in Pine Hill) wishing to pursue a career in criminal justice with a $500 scholarship each year. We also support the Special Olympics, and Deborah Heart and Lung Center. We are also actively involved in our respective communities throught support of youth baseball and softball team sponsorships, and public events such as the Medford Twp. Halloween parade.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 77% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86.2%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 67.3%; rating input score 67
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -28.1%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.44; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -7.9% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 86.2% of revenue deployed · 67.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $57K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.