Melrose Firefighters Iaff Local 1617 C/o John Mccarron
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 046143948
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Melrose, MA, USA
- Phone
- 7815724077
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $67,097
- Expenses
- $65,174
- Assets
- $32,063
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ERIC CHRISTOPHER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN MCCARRON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- KRISTINA HARRIS (SECRETARY/TREASURER)
- ERIC CHRISTOPHER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- JOHN MCCARRON (PRESIDENT)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of this organization is to protect the general welfare of the regular members of the melrose firefighters.
What it reported doing in 2025
Providing legal representation for collective bargaining and contributions to the legal defense of members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 30
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 30.2%; rating input score 30
- Program expense ratio: 31.1%; rating input score 31
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.9%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 30.2% of revenue deployed · 31.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 31/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.