Knoxville Firefighters Association Local 65
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 626063763
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Knoxville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 8655243473
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,507,511
- Expenses
- $1,511,476
- Assets
- $381,996
- Liabilities
- $7,149
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LARRY MCAFEE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT DORRYCOTT (SECRETARY/TR): $19,700 total reported compensation
- LARRY MCAFEE (PRESIDENT): $12,600 total reported compensation
- CHRIS HINKLE (VICE PRESIDE): $3,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To foster and encourage a higher degree of skill and efficiency among members. To cultivate friendship among members. To promote harmonious relations between firefighters and their employer. To maintain proper remuneration for duty performed and to elevate the moral, intellectual, social and economic welfare of its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
Member benefits and services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 9% for direct work, 59% for grants, and 31% for member benefits.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 21
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.4%; rating input score 23
- Program expense ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 23
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.38 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 90.3%; rating input score 90; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.25; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.4% of revenue deployed · 23.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $353K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $20K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 23/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.