Pine Strawberry Fuel Reduction Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 261648961
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Pine, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6024596795
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Natural Resources Conservation and Protection
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $78,272
- Expenses
- $70,635
- Assets
- $344,627
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- Elsa Steffanson (Exec Director)
- Joan Backman (Trails Director)
- Howard Kaiser (Finance 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
1. Conduct community meetings with lectures and exhibits promoting fire-wising of the community and wildfire preparedness. 2. Utilize our Fire-Wising trailer, which contains information as described above, at community events promoted and scheduled by other organizations. 3. Construct and Maintain multi-use forest trails in the Tonto National Forest surrounding the communities of Pine and Strawberry, Arizona. These trails provide for community recreation as well as improved access for fire fighting crews. 4. Conduct fund raising events to support the activities listed above.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Conduct communtiy meetings with lectures and exhibits promoting fire-wising concepts for community protection and wildfire preparedness. 2. Exhibit our fire-wising trailer, which contains information described above, at various community events held by others. 3. Maintain approximately 25 miles of forest trails in the tonto national forest surrounding the communities of pine and strawberry, Arizona. These trails provide recreation opportunities to residents and also provide improved access for fire fighting presonnel. 4. Organize the pine trail run and the fire on the rim bike race to bring in participants from outside our community to explore and enjoy the national forest.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 96% 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 revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 67
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.2%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 99.9%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.88; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -12.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -10.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.2% of revenue deployed · 99.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $71K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.