Harrisburg Community Fire Department
Legal name: Harrisburg Community Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 262651187
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Harrisburg, SD, USA
- Phone
- 605-951-2134
- Rating
- 52
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $238,873
- Expenses
- $137,849
- Assets
- $1,049,668
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS BEHRENS (HCFD PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CODY LENGKEEK (FIRE CHIEF)
- JAYME ADRIAN (ASSISTANT CHIEF)
- KYLE HANISCH (SECRETARY)
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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Harrisburg Community Fire Department (HCFD) is a volunteer organization that serves the city of Harrisburg and the surrounding townships of Dayton, La Valley, Delapre and Springdale.
What it reported doing in 2019
Provide fire and rescue services to the city of harrisburg sd. Such services shall be provided based on the emergency demand of the population being served. No priority of services is planned.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 94% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 11
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 86
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- Fundraising efficiency: $1,402.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 42.3%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.61; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -41.4% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 35 of 35 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 14 of 14 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2010 to 2019
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.