New Hartford Fire Department
Legal name: New Hartford Volunteer Fireman's Benevolent Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161061410
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New Hartford, NY, US
- Phone
- 315-732-1710
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $141,405
- Expenses
- $86,725
- Assets
- $653,327
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES TOOMEY JR (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- FRANK BASILE (VICE PRESIDE)
- THOMAS BOLANOWSKI (DIRECTOR - C)
- VINCENT ESPOSITO (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We’re here for you! 24 hours a day, seven days a week, protecting lives and property throughout our community. > Our Mission shall be the Protection, Preservation and well being of the Health, Safety and Property of all persons residing, working or otherwise within the Department's Fire District. We will always provide Fire Safety Education to any and all groups interested, to promote Fire Safety and Prevention at all time! We will strive to protect Life from the destruction of fire as it may occur. And, furthermore, make every effort, within our ability, to reduce the loss of property during such fires. We will, whenever called to do so, provide the highest level of Medical Care to the Ill and Injured. Our promise.
What it reported doing in 2025
Service for indigent members and cost of life insurance benefits for members.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 83
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 62.1%; rating input score 62
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 38.7%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 7.53; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 62.1% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $80K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 6 not reported.