Lansing Volunteer Fire & Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561434550
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2017
- Location
- Lansing, NC, USA
- Phone
- 3363844545
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,741,494
- Expenses
- $275,037
- Assets
- $2,175,978
- Liabilities
- $171,680
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENNY ROOP (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JEFF VENABLE (1ST ASSISTANT CHIEF)
- MIKE HART (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- JACKIE REEDY (2ND ASSISTANT CHIEF)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Respond to fire and rescue calls individually and/or in conjunction with other county agencies
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided fire and ems services to the township of lansing nc and surrounding areas
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 76% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 88
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 16.7%; rating input score 17
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 84.2%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.91; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 39% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 16.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 29 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $275K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 24 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 17/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.