International Association of Fire Fighters
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 316064494
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Columbus, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145837200
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $70,208
- Expenses
- $38,809
- Assets
- $176,947
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Scott Hillman (Vice President)
- Brian Lyday (President)
People named in this filing
- Scott Hillman (Vice President)
- Josh Bailey (Secretary Treasurer)
- Brian Lyday (President)
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
The organization is a firefighters labor union that provides representation for members including collective bargaining, grievance handling, and workers compensation support. It conducts monthly membership meetings and participates in labor and legislative conferences. The organization also supports charitable causes including Tunnel to Towers Foundation, Special Olympics of Ohio, First Responder Bridge, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Starr House, IAFF locals, and provides scholarships to high school and college students.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization is a firefighters labor union that represents its members in labor relations and workplace matters, including collective bargaining negotiations, grievance processing, and workers compensation matters with legal support. The organization conducts monthly membership meetings to address union business and promote member engagement, fellowship, and camaraderie. It participates in labor and legislative conferences to advocate for issues affecting firefighters and public safety professionals. In furtherance of its mission and community support goals, the organization provides charitable contributions to organizations such as Tunnel to Towers Foundation, Special Olympics of Ohio, First Responder Bridge, National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Starr House, and other IAFF-affiliated locals. The organization also provides scholarships to high school and college students to support educational advancement and community development.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 80% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 57
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.3%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 44.7%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.56; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.3% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $30K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.