Mountain Rim Fire Safe Council Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 330851413
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2017
- Location
- Running Springs, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8669233473
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Botanical, Horticultural, and Landscape Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $839,535
- Expenses
- $832,650
- Assets
- $591,946
- Liabilities
- $490,398
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Dyberg (President)
- Robert Tiberi (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Laura Dyberg (President): $71,870 total reported compensation
- Terisa Bonito (Treasurer): $5,280 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate about and assist in fire prevention in the high risk areas of the San Bernardino National Forest Communities. Organization identifies fire risks and assists with abatement and tree removal while educating homeowners on proper fire risk education.
What it reported doing in 2024
Grant funds are used for fuel reduction and fire prevention education in the RIM communities from Crestline to Green Valley Lake (110 square miles). Community Chipper Days are conducted every year to help individual homeowners clear excess brush from their properties and thereby contribute to fuel reduction.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 100% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.8%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.83; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.3%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.4% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $675K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $72K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.