International Assocof Firefighters Las Vegas Fire Fighters Local 1285
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 886006900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7028787505
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,116,860
- Expenses
- $923,079
- Assets
- $5,761,109
- Liabilities
- $2,402
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES SUAREZ (PRESIDENT)
- ANTHONY RUBEN SANCHEZ (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES SUAREZ (PRESIDENT): $47,985 total reported compensation
- TYLER CHAIRSELL (VICE PRESIDE): $39,587 total reported compensation
- CYNTHIA REVLES (SECRETARY): $38,388 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To represent members in collective bargaining, grievance, workers compensation issues and to improve members' working conditions.
What it reported doing in 2024
To organize members to secure improved wages, hours, working conditions and other economic advantages through organized negotiations and collective bargaining.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th 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: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 17.4%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.24; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.4%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.1% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $48K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.