Osfsi
Legal name: Ohio Society of Fire Service Instructors
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 901077587
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2015–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Worthington, Ohio, USA
- Phone
- 6144106322
- Rating
- 54
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $7,405
- Expenses
- $8,611
- Assets
- $18,847
- Liabilities
- $2,695
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHARLIE DIXON (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- CHARLIE DIXON (PRESIDENT)
- JEREMY LINN (VICE PRESIDE)
- THOMAS D BENTLEY (SECRETARY TR)
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
To provide effective leadership and education to fire and emergency service instructors in the State of Ohio.
What it reported doing in 2025
To promote acceptance and understanding of education and training in this field. To hold periodic conferences for the study of training problems and to publish papers, reports and discussions thereof. To encourage research and special studies, to develop and review training programs, materials, and procedures. To cooperate with other associate societies and educational institutions in carrying out these objectives.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 39
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 40.5%; rating input score 41
- Program expense ratio: 34.9%; rating input score 35
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.19; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -18.6% per year; rating input score 0; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 40.5% of revenue deployed · 34.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.