Newburg Fire Department Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 352285146
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Newburg, WI, USA
- Phone
- 2626756262
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $787,858
- Expenses
- $584,337
- Assets
- $2,671,065
- Liabilities
- $25,474
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRIS BECKER (PRESIDENT)
- TONY SCHOLTEN (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ANN FRY-EICKSTEDT (DIRECTOR): $9,515 total reported compensation
- TONY SCHOLTEN (VICE PRESIDENT): $4,240 total reported compensation
- RYAN HAEUSER (DIRECTOR): $3,775 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of the newburg fire department is to minimize loss of life, poperty and the environment from fires, natural disasters, life threatening situations, and to assist other emergency agencies.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide fire protection and ambulance services for the community.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 28
- Sustainability: 76
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76%; rating input score 76
- Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 16.7%; rating input score 17; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.8%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.57; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.2%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -2.2% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 18 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $548K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 17/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.