Guthrie Center Fire Fighters Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 454305255
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2014, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Guthrie Center, IA, USA
- Phone
- 6413322986
- Rating
- 88
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $169,058
- Expenses
- $170,824
- Assets
- $264,455
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRANDON PETERSON (Vice President)
- BRANDON SCHREIBER (President)
People named in this filing
- BRANDON PETERSON (Vice President)
- CAMERON HESTER (CHIEF OF POLICE)
- DEREK BETTS (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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide fire and medical safety assistance to those in guthrie center and the surrounding areas. The organization also provices education opportunities for those in the corresponding areas.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provided safety & rescue services as needed. Purchased new protective clothing, gear and technology for the fire deparmtent.provided educational opportunities to the surrounding communities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 99.8%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -13.5% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 99.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $170K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.