Great Falls Volunteer Fireman

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 300491804
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2015–2016
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2016
Location: Great Falls, SC, USA
Rating: 45
Verdict: MIXED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue: $23,134
Expenses: $28,876
Assets: $11,907
Liabilities: $0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2016. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

RUSSELL COLLINS (CHIEF)

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 2016. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide fire & life safety emerg respons

What it reported doing in 2016

Purchased equipment and other benefits for members

Operating model

Revenue model: Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 18
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 31
Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 20.5%; rating input score 20
Program expense ratio: 16.4%; rating input score 16

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: -24.8%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -62.2% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -38.9% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 20.5% of revenue deployed · 16.4% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 2 filing years from 2015 to 2016
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 16/100.
Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.