Grey Eagle Fire Department Relief Associ

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
411479186
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Grey Eagle, MN, USA
Phone
3203606380
Rating
64
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$36,911
Expenses
$10,593
Assets
$873,086
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRANDON DEFOE (PRESIDENT)
  • SAMANTHA POHLMANN (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRANDON DEFOE (PRESIDENT): $400 total reported compensation
  • SAMANTHA POHLMANN (VICE PRESIDENT): $300 total reported compensation
  • MATTHEW ZINNIEL (SECRETARY): $200 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Provide firemen benefits for retirement

What it reported doing in 2024

These funds are used to provide retirement benefits to members who volunteer their time to train and serve as firefighters in their own town and surrounding areas, and to maintain the retirement account.

Operating model

Revenue model
Grant-funded. 74% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 51
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 56
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 31.9%; rating input score 32
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 72.7%; rating input score 73; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: 71.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 82.42; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 31.9% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 22 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $400 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 19 of 19 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 32/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.