Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470249988
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Milford, NE, USA
- Phone
- 4027612211
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,114,914
- Expenses
- $1,246,560
- Assets
- $609,969
- Liabilities
- $20,882
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Advanced Assoc Mgmt LLC (Executive Director)
- Scott Schremmer (President)
- Brenda Jenny (1st Vice President)
- Troy Shoemaker (2nd Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Advanced Assoc Mgmt LLC (Executive Director): $82,680 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 provide a unified voice for the fire and rescue services across the state, to provide advice and guidance pertaining to legislative issues, to encourage education and training within fire and rescue, and to promote a communications network for all members.
What it reported doing in 2024
Nebraska State Volunteer Firefighters Association was awarded a SAFER Grant. This grant assists in the recruitment & retention of volunteer firefighters across the state. The grant also provides funds to reimburse volunteers and their family members for higher education costs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- 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: 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: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -11.8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 98% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $83K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.