Runnelstown Volunteer Firedepartment
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205325924
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Petal, MS, USA
- Phone
- 6012975421
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,818
- Expenses
- $88,857
- Assets
- $199,059
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- GEORGE WHITE (FIRE CHIEF)
- BANKIE FREEMAN (ASST FIRE CHIEF)
- TERRY SHOEMAKE (SECRETARY/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
Volunteer fire department. Money received only to purchase fire equipment and operate volunteer fire department.
What it reported doing in 2025
Money received only to purchase fire equipment. 2024 EXP AND 2025 EXP BUT RECEIVED MONEY IN 2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 72
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 81%; rating input score 81
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: 17.6%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.24; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 81% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $72K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 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: Asset growth scored 0/100.