Professional Fire Fighters of Maricopa

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
141982010
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Maricopa, AZ, USA
Phone
4803900279
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Labor Unions

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$86,693
Expenses
$82,099
Assets
$88,682
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Joshua Eads (President)
  • Benjamin Blanco (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Joshua Eads (President)
  • Roland Pfetsch (Secretary / Treasurer)
  • Benjamin Blanco (Vice President)

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

501c5 Union, Support Firefighters Working Conditions Benefits and Wages.

What it reported doing in 2025

Support Firefighters Working Conditions Benefits and Wages. Travel: $15072.93 Representation of Union members and Union sponsored events. Meals: $ 6761.06 For members volunteering time at union sponsored events and meetings. Membership: $21385.51 to the PFFA and IAFF to help support Firefighters Working Conditions Benefits and Wages. Created a 501c3 Firefighter Foundation and GIS study to gather data for more efficient and effective response to the City of Maricopa within the State of Arizona. Union Membership Total: 72

Operating model

Revenue model
Membership-supported. 97% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. 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: 52
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 52.6%; rating input score 53

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 5.3%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.08; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 10.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -7.4% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51% of revenue deployed · 52.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.