Independence Fire Rescue Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
825062472
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
Location
Independence, IA, USA
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$64,929
Expenses
$38,820
Assets
$163,467

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JUDD TAYLOR (President)

People named in this filing

  • JUDD TAYLOR (President)
  • JEFF BURNS (Secretary)
  • JORDON WULFEKUHLE (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

Our mission is to provide a safe, professional, and courteous team that strives to exceed the community's expectations. This mission requires our members to be part of a capable, aggressive, all-risk fire department that focuses on "preserving the past and protecting the future" of those we serve.

What it reported doing in 2025

Over the past year, the independence fire rescue association (ifra) has remained dedicated to strengthening our support for the independence fire department. By strategically leveraging association funds and securing several local grants, we have successfully supplemented the department's budget to provide essential tools and equipment. Our key achievements this year include: operational support: funding critical equipment upgrades to enhance departmental readiness. Grant acquisition: partnering with local organizations to secure additional external funding. Fiscal stewardship: implementing a strategy to protect and grow our reserves, ensuring the ifra's long-term sustainability. These efforts reflect our commitment to investing in the future of the association while maintaining the highest standard of safety for our community.

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 83% 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 a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 64
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.2%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 40.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.21; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.2% of revenue deployed · 85.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $33K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 11/100.