International Association of Fire Fighters

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
391515640
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Sheboygan, WI, USA
Phone
9202075688
Rating confidence
Limited

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$80,976
Expenses
$64,648
Assets
$882,617
Liabilities
$806,241

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ADAM GRANDLIC (PRESIDENT)
  • CHAD BRANDIS (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • ADAM GRANDLIC (PRESIDENT): $5,116 total reported compensation
  • ZACHARIAH TIMRECK (SECRETARY/TREASURER - PART YEAR): $2,890 total reported compensation
  • BILL CHEREK (NEGOTIATIONS MEMBER - PART YEAR): $2,619 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Labor union sheboygan local 483

What it reported doing in 2025

Provide labor union guidance to membership of 69. Donations and memorials throughout sheboygan county given. Training in schools and professional organizations to promote fire safety and awareness

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 90% 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: 9
  • Sustainability: 56
  • 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; 63rd 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; 10th 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 13.65; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.91; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.1%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 72.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 14 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.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.