Los Angeles County Fire Department Explorer Program
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010861306
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2018
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2018
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9096202029
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,097
- Expenses
- $48,012
- Assets
- $43,053
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
People named in this filing
- DAVID RICHARDSON (Director)
- DAVID TOIGO (Chairman)
- ROBERT GUNTHER (Chairman)
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 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The los angeles county fire explorer program is a division of the learning for life program and is sponsored by the los angeles county fire department. The main goal is to train young men and women in areas of the fire service and to assist them in pursuing goals to become a full time firegighter.
What it reported doing in 2018
The disaster drill exercise was held to offer cadets hands-on lessons on auto extrication, traffic collisions, structural firefighting, wildland firefighting, urabn search & rescue, helispot operation and hazardous materials.245 explorers participated and benefited from this exercise.
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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 71.7%; rating input score 72
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8.9%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.9; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 71.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $34K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2010 to 2018
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.