Howell Twp First Aid & Rescue Squad #1
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237125943
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Howell, NJ, USA
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $299,992
- Expenses
- $207,004
- Assets
- $564,221
- Liabilities
- $136,227
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN ZICHA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CONNER MAHER (SGT): $1,402 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE MCCARTHY (CAPTAIN): $1,333 total reported compensation
- ROBERT DELEO (CHIEF): $568 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To administer first aid and ambulance services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Providing first aid and ambulance services to the community.
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 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: 29
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 22.1%; rating input score 22
- Program expense ratio: 32%; rating input score 32
- Fundraising efficiency: $18.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 0th 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: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.73; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 22.1% of revenue deployed · 32% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $66K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 28 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Advertising column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Occupancy column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 35/100.