Palo Pinto Volunteer Fire Dept

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 011696609
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2011–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025
Location: Palo Pinto, TX, USA
Phone: 9406593900
Rating: 86
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue: $138,509
Expenses: $126,552
Assets: $311,078

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

JUSTIN POTTER (Director)
DALLAS BAKER (Director)
CODY GRIFFIN (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

The purposes of palo pinto volunteer fire department is the saving of lives, the protection of property endangered by fires and other disasters, and promotion of the teaching and practice of fire prevention and protection.

What it reported doing in 2025

Fire protection, emergency assistance, and fire prevention education services for citizens of palo pinto county, Texas, and surrounding areas

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 83
Transparency & Controls: 100
Sustainability: 57
Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 80.1%; rating input score 80
Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

Operating margin: 8.6%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.46; rating input score 84; 84th 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: -0.1% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -2.7% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 80.1% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $111K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 3 filed schedules
Filing history: 9 filing years from 2011 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.