Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060983496
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Middlebury, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2035774028
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $623,280
- Expenses
- $556,650
- Assets
- $1,769,556
- Liabilities
- $209,934
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL VONKANEWURFF (DEPUTY CHEIF): $10,263 total reported compensation
- JAMES GROHS (CHEIF): $7,320 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL MCGAUHAN (SECRETARY): $6,465 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the organization is to protect and preserve the well being of the community of middlebury, Connecticut. The organization's firefighters and medical personnel serve with dedication and dignity to ensure life safety to the residents of the community. Training allows the organization's members to operate at the highest standards, which will guarantee professionalism in each of their endeavors. The organization is committed to the preservation of the environment and its surroundings. Furthermore, the organization's members pledge their assistance to their neighbors in the time of need.
What it reported doing in 2024
The middlebury volunteer fire department, inc. Serves the community of middlebury Connecticut by responding to fire and emergencies that immediately threaten life or property, to routine citizen requests for information or assistance and performing duties in fire supression, emergency medical aid or rescue and hazardous material responses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 65% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 62
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 94.7%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $56 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.18; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.6%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 94.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $527K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 45/100.