Jeremy Stoke Legacy Fire Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834683296
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Cottonwood, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5305154283
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $30,442
- Expenses
- $62,879
- Assets
- $288,938
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL DIMATTEO (President)
People named in this filing
- ALYSON STOKE (Director)
- MICHAEL DIMATTEO (President)
- SAM HUNT (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The jeremy stoke legacy foundation was founded in 2018 after the devastating carr fire incident in shasta county, ca. Jeremy was working within the incident and was tragically killed in the line of duty. Jeremy worked for the redding fire department and was both alumni of shasta college and an instructor in many areas within the fire academy. Jeremy's passion for the fire service was evident in his work ethic. His reputation was known throughout the fire service as being a brother who had your back. The vision of this foundation is to pass on some of the qualities that jeremy embodied: honoring the brave, assisting those in need, shaping the future of the fire service. Through these visionary points, the foundation is able to provide education resources and scholarships to local students and fire academy recruits. The foundation reaches out to the public safety familes and the community at large in times of need.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, we proudly continued our commitment to giving back to the community. We awarded 19 scholarships to cadets graduating from shasta college fire academy and provided ongoing support to numerous organizations and individuals through out the year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 0
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 77.2%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -106.6%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.6; rating input score 51; 51st 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 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.2% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 77.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 0 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $49K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 16 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 17/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.