Huntsville Fire Fighters Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237063595
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Huntsville, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2564268342
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $291,274
- Expenses
- $258,202
- Assets
- $319,305
- Liabilities
- $619
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- PAUL CRUMBLEY (PRESIDENT)
- BRETT REYNOLDS (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- PAUL CRUMBLEY (PRESIDENT): $12,000 total reported compensation
- TRACY CHRISTA (SECRETARY TREASURER): $10,800 total reported compensation
- BRETT REYNOLDS (VICE PRESIDENT): $10,800 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
H.F.F.A is a local union organized to elevate fire fighting as a profession by improving its member s skills, efficiency, physical and moral condition.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 73% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 78% for direct work, 1% for grants, and 21% for member benefits.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 98.8%; rating input score 99
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 11.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.24; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -8.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $258K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12K · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 47/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.