Orange County Fire Authority Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
271064774
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Irvine, CA, USA
Phone
6199337391
Rating
50
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$171,852
Expenses
$145,419
Assets
$314,507
Liabilities
$31,367

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

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN FENNESSY (CEO)

People named in this filing

  • DOUG DAVERT (Chairman)
  • THOMAS WILSON (Director)
  • SHERRI BUTTERFIELD (Director)

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 assist the Orange County Fire Authority in raising or securing funds, services, materials, and contributions to support the OCFA's mission by providing additional resources to enhance the level of fire prevention, suppression and emergency medical services to the citizens of Orange County.

What it reported doing in 2025

The various programs for the year ending June 30, 2025 include Best & Bravest event, Community Risk Reduction, Employee Health & Welfare, Rowing Challenge, Toy Drive, and Girls Empowerment Camp & Training.The programs were conducted in order to accomplish the mission of the Organization.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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 and revenue comfortably covers expenses. 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: 24
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 22%; rating input score 22
  • Program expense ratio: 26%; rating input score 26

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 15.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.16; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -5.2% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 22% of revenue deployed · 26% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $38K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 22/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.