Michigan Professional Fire Fighters Union
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 380830680
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Trenton, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7346750206
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,075,122
- Expenses
- $863,871
- Assets
- $1,619,362
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MATTHEW T SAHR (PRESIDENT)
- MONTGOMERY C NYE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- RICHARD CLARK (VICE PRESIDENT)
- SCOTT J BALA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN HEIM (VICE PRESIDENT)
- GREGORY WEISBARTH (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MATTHEW T SAHR (PRESIDENT): $60,846 total reported compensation
- TERRENCE H CHESNEY (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $60,846 total reported compensation
- GREGORY WEISBARTH (VICE PRESIDENT): $24,252 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To organize professional firefighters to secure just compensation for their services and equitable settlements of their grievances; to promote the establishment of just and reasonable working conditions; to place members of the union on a higher plane of skill and efficiency; to promote harmonious relations between firefighters and their employers; to encourage the formation of local unions; to encourage the formation of sick and death benefit funds; to encourage the establishment of schools of instruction for imparting knowledge of modern and improved methods of firefighting and prevention; and to cultivate friendship and fellowship among its members.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provides the funding to administer the association and to allow it to carry out its tax exempt purpose which is to organize professional firefighters to secure just compensation for their services and equitable settlements of their grievances; to promote the establishment of just and reasonable working conditions; to place members of the union on a higher plane of skill and efficiency; to promote harmonious relations between firefighters and their employers; to encourage the formation of local unions; to encourage the formation of sick and death benefit funds; to encourage the establishment of schools of instruction for imparting knowledge of modern and improved methods of firefighting and prevention; and to cultivate friendship and fellowship among its members.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 56
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 64
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 10.5%; rating input score 11; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 19.6%; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.87; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 26.6%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.8% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 0 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 11/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.