International Association of Firefighters L1699 Milpitas
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237088985
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Milpitas, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4088071841
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $208,061
- Expenses
- $180,832
- Assets
- $172,218
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIO BENA (PRESIDENT)
- JERRELL HARDY (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MARIO BENA (PRESIDENT): $13,426 total reported compensation
- JERRELL HARDY (VICE PRESIDENT): $6,713 total reported compensation
- KEENAN WOLFE (TREASURER): $4,957 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide collective bargaining during negotations, member representation, legal support, fire station supplies, at-cost uniforms, and other amenities for our professional firefighter members.
What it reported doing in 2025
The betterment of the conditions of the milpitas firefighters and the improvement in the quality of the service provided to the city of milpitas.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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: 18
- Sustainability: 52
- 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; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.95; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 19%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 8 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $121K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $13K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 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: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 40/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.