Goshen Fire Company
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 236435384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- West Chester, PA, USA
- Phone
- 6104301554
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,056,323
- Expenses
- $3,696,156
- Assets
- $11,560,862
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THEODORE HARRISON IV (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- THEODORE HARRISON IV (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID THOMPSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS STALNAKER (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. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We, the members of the goshen fire company, are dedicated to the preservation of life, property, and the environment. As a volunteer and career department, our goal is to provide exceptional fire rescue, fire police, and emergency medical service to the community through the recruitment and training of qualified individuals, providing them with the tools they need to perform any task. We ask only for the support of our community to help us perform our mission of public service.
What it reported doing in 2025
The goshen fire company started in 1950 in a small gargae in the milltown section of east goshen with one fire truck and has grown to what it is today, two stations housing, 17 pieces of fire apparatus including 1 engines, 2 ladders, 2 squards, 5 ems units, 2 traffice units, 1 brush truck, 1 support unit and 3 chief response vehicles. The fire company responds to over 700 fire emergencies a year and well in excess of 5,000 ems calls a year. The goshen fire company provides fire, rescue and ems services to east and west goshen townships, westtown township and willistown township. The fire compant covers approximately 25 square miles and protects over 25,000 residents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.8%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 87.4%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 21st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.9%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.13; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.8% of revenue deployed · 87.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.