Memphis Fire Fighters Association Local 1784
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 620855040
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Memphis, TN, USA
- Phone
- 9013863129
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,575,661
- Expenses
- $1,551,429
- Assets
- $1,003,969
- Liabilities
- $1,365
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS MALONE (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS MALONE (PRESIDENT): $38,126 total reported compensation
- GARY TODD CONKLIN (VICE PRESIDE): $29,624 total reported compensation
- MATTHEW TOMEK (SECRETARY/TR): $29,624 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
See page 1
What it reported doing in 2024
Memphis firefighters assoc local 1784 organized to elevate firefighting as a profession
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, 3% for grants, and 35% for affiliated organizations.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 18
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.5%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $38K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.