New Haven Fire Muster Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832674277
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
New Haven, IN, USA
Phone
2606029618
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fund Raising and Fund Distribution

Reported finances

Revenue
$149,218
Expenses
$134,588
Assets
$109,276

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DANIELLE THOMPSON (BOARD PRESID)
  • JON STAUFFER (SECRETARY/TR)
  • DAN WATTS (AT LARGE)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Our mission is to to provide our citizens with the highest level of protection from fire and disaster with professionalism and effectiveness. To provide the safest methods for our personnel by providing adequate equipment, training, and procedures. To safeguard the general economy and protect our community and always be prepared to handle any emergency. To educate our citizens to become a fire safe community. To make every effort to prevent fires and disasters from occurring.

What it reported doing in 2025

We provide fire safety, fire security, and emergency response services to our community.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 94
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 90.2%; rating input score 90
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 29.1%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 16.3% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 90.2% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $135K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.