New England Association of Fire Chiefs Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 041660310
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2021
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Montpelier, VT, USA
- Phone
- 4139674217
- Rating
- 45
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $231,115
- Expenses
- $72,447
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBERT GOWANS (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN DUROSS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- DARRELL WHITE (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROBERT BRADLEY JR (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN WOOD (SEC & TREAS): $56,106 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Advancement of fire services and protection through education and exposure to technological improvements
What it reported doing in 2021
Conduct conferences and disseminate information regarding fire service and protection; develop techniques, equipment practices and organization of fire fighting services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 3
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 1.9%; rating input score 2
- Program expense ratio: 5.9%; rating input score 6
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 8th 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: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 68.7%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -9.7% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -11% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 1.9% of revenue deployed · 5.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 15 of 19 current checks pass · 4 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2013 to 2021
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 2/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 6/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 1/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX CompCurrentOfficersDirectors column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX DepreciationDepletion column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX Insurance column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.