Lower Saucon Fire Rescue
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 832656697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Bethlehem, PA, United States
- Phone
- 610-694-0761
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $603,479
- Expenses
- $1,179,780
- Assets
- $2,978,515
- Liabilities
- $513,535
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT KRYCIA (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRIS SNYDER (TRUSTEE): $3,387 total reported compensation
- SCOTT KRYCIA (PRESIDENT): $3,339 total reported compensation
- ROBERT PHILLIPS (TREASURER): $865 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Lower Saucon Fire Rescue is to save lives and protect property through emergency medical service, fire and rescue response, and fire prevention. We respond immediately when any member of our community needs help with professional, effective, and compassionate service.
What it reported doing in 2025
Deprecaition for emergency fire and rescue services
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -95.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.52; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 5 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.