Our Firefighters Childrens Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 542064625
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 6466238083
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Delinquency Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $187,223
- Expenses
- $175,217
- Assets
- $9,639
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- John Ruiz Miranda (Vice President)
- Yolanda Brooks (President)
People named in this filing
- John Ruiz Miranda (Vice President)
- Yolanda Brooks (President)
- Melanie Ruiz (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission encompasses many facets. Our mission is to provideaffordable, live, theatrical, and educational entertainment for the inner-citycommunity. We strive to provide entertainment that satisfies the tastes andinterests of all age groups and demographics. i.e., children, senior citizens, the disabled, and people from low-socioeconomic communities. Ourmission is to provide gifted performers and theatrical staff with theopportunity to work. Recognizing that art can enhance people's lives, westrive to utilize live theater as a vehicle to enrich the lives of our audienceand staff, and to keep live theater accessible to vulnerable communitieswhile remaining available to people from all communities. We practice thismission by having performances within venues that are easily accessibleto our target audience, hence eliminating the barrier of time and expense.We believe that access to art can enhance the trajectory of a communityas well as impart a positive image and identity of the commun
What it reported doing in 2025
CharityOur foundation provides charity to low-income communities byoffering free live educational entertainment to the elderly, children, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds. We distribute freetickets by reaching out to community leaders, such as presidents ofpublic housing tenant associations, administrators of senior centers, and city council members, who assist in locating members of ourtarget audience, including families living in homeless shelters andthose affected by domestic violence. For Christmas, our live theatricalprogram titled Scrooge, the Christmas Story gives free tickets tofamilies and provides each child with a free toy. We also distributefree turkeys for Thanksgiving.EducationalOur foundation provides free educational entertainment for childrenand adults. Our program, titled The Rappin Fireman and his SafetyFriends, is a program that teaches about fire safety using robots, asmoke house, puppets, and family-friendly rap songs. Free fire safetyeducational coloring books are distributed to children, andparticipants are given a free toy. For over 40 years, our program hasbeen providing charitable educational services throughout New YorkCity. To date, we have served over 1 million children.
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
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 6.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.06; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -100% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -22.1% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 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.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.