Lodi Fire Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843789819
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jul 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Woodbridge, CA, USA
- Phone
- 209-333-6735
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Single Organization Support
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $105,063
- Expenses
- $84,891
- Assets
- $122,823
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
People named in this filing
- CHRISTOPHER MEEHLEIS (Chairman)
- KIRK SASAKI (Vice Chairman)
- JILL HERNANDEZ (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Lodi Fire Foundation’s mission is to provide financial assistance to the Lodi Fire Department to help keep our community safe.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization used funds to maintain the city's santa truck used in local parades and events for promoting goodwill in the community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 63
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 78.5%; rating input score 78
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.2%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.45; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.5% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 78.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 5 filed program accomplishments · $67K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.