Fraternal Order of Police Tennessee State Lodge

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
237585744
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Clarksville, TN, USA
Phone
9318025545
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$488,751
Expenses
$328,502
Assets
$832,642
Liabilities
$13,159

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

62 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SCOTTIE DELASHMIT (PRESIDENT)
  • SHANE TREW (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DAN GRAGG (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
  • JOHNNY CRUMBY (NATIONAL TRUSTEE/IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JAMES GAFFORD (TREASURER): $23,042 total reported compensation
  • SCOTTIE DELASHMIT (PRESIDENT): $17,500 total reported compensation
  • SAMUEL KNOLTON (SECRETARY): $14,458 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to promote professionalism among police officers and to provide service to their communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Other community projects - grants given to local lodges for local projects. Police memorial project in nashville and other cities. Other civic and community projects. Promotes professionalism and comradeship among officers and citizens.

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 93% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 32.8%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.7%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 59 of 62 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
  • Leadership: top reported pay $23K · 62 people listed
  • Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.