Montana Firefighter Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 853809715
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Belgrade, MT, USA
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,256
- Expenses
- $149,142
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN SAUNDERS (President)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW HILL (Director)
- KEISUKE MITA (Director)
- JOHN SAUNDERS (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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Montana Firefighter Fund is dedicated to supporting and honoring firefighters who risk their lives every day in the line of duty. The Fund aims to build a stronger fire service community by providing firefighters with opportunities for continued education, access to proper equipment to safely and effectively do their job, and to assist firefighters (and their families) who have been injured or fallen in the line of duty.
What it reported doing in 2024
THE EDUCATION PROGRAM provides professional development opportunities for individuals in the fire community. The grant money can be used towards higher education, scholarships, certifications, trainings, & gear related to fire service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 2
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3,404.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 63.6% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -37.7% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $114K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.