Laredo Firefighters Association Local 872
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 746060963
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Laredo, TX, USA
- Phone
- 9567259362
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $492,980
- Expenses
- $498,242
- Assets
- $586,194
- Liabilities
- $75,540
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAVID GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT)
- JOSE A ALANIS (1ST VICE-PRESIDENT)
- JOHN E FLORES (2ND VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID GONZALEZ (PRESIDENT): $30,000 total reported compensation
- GERARDO TOVAR (TREASURER): $10,800 total reported compensation
- OSCAR DELGADO (SECRETARY): $7,800 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 increase the skill and efficiency of the members of the association.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote as safe and healthy a working environment for firefighters as is possible through modern technology.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% 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: 93
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 34
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.1%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.18; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 426 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 11 of 11 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.