Garland Firefighter Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161691477
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Garland, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9722403622
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $243,204
- Expenses
- $218,114
- Assets
- $307,316
- Liabilities
- $177,392
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL CREWS (PRESIDENT)
- BRANDON DAY (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JORDAN GARCIA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JAKE PAGE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- BILL CREWS (PRESIDENT): $16,857 total reported compensation
- KEVIN PAIGE (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $10,115 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide support to fellow firefighters and firefighter families in time of need.
What it reported doing in 2025
Volunteers participate in community activities and support of various local and national fundraising activites.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Affiliate network. The nonprofit sent 67% of its reported program spending through affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 71.2%; rating input score 71
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 10.3%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.4%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 64.3% of revenue deployed · 71.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $17K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.