Friendship Veterans Fire Association of Alexandria Virginia
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237034338
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Alexandria, VA, USA
- Phone
- 5713022932
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $42,903
- Expenses
- $30,376
- Assets
- $221,721
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIMMIE MCCLELLAN (PRESIDENT)
- TIM WINKLE (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JIMMIE MCCLELLAN (PRESIDENT)
- TIM WINKLE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT DUBE (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Promote fire and life safety in community. Preserve historic antique fire equipment. Conduct good will with community breakfast and festival.organization's primary exempt purpose: mission statement--the association, established in 1774, assists in the preservation of the historic firehouse (circa 1855), in alexandria va, supports the alexandria fire department, and provides scholarships and other benevolent and philanthropic services to the alexandria community. The association promotes civic involvement, honors the legacy of its 18th century founders--all dedicated citizen firefighters--and values the contributions of our present day first-responders. The friendship firehouse festival showcases the historic firehouse (built in 1855) and highlights its antique fire service apparatus and equipment. It is an open house and street festival with community exhibitors showing off their wares. Attendance estimated between 2000-3000 visitors. The association awards a $1,000 educational schol
What it reported doing in 2024
Expenses for scholarship, gw breakfast ceremony, and festival activities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 64% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.9%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.2%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.3; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.5% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 43.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 65.9% of revenue deployed · 76.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $23K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.