International Assoc of Firefighters a0019 Profffmd
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237080384
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Catonsville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4109351122
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $142,315
- Expenses
- $148,425
- Assets
- $221,369
- Liabilities
- $1,829
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF D BUDDLE (PRESIDENT)
- MELISSA BRAGG (VICE PRESIDENT)
- THOMAS SKINNER (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JEFF D BUDDLE (PRESIDENT): $41,700 total reported compensation
- JOHN F QUIRK (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $21,500 total reported compensation
- MELISSA BRAGG (VICE PRESIDENT): $11,872 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Maryland firefighter labor negotiations and representation of professional fire fighters in the state of Maryland.
What it reported doing in 2024
To cultivate a closer feeling of friendship and fellowship among fire fighters, fire officers, and ems employees through promotion of state legislation to advance their interest and safety.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 14
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.3%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 58.6%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -85.7% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $42K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.