Smithville Volunteer Fire Department
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 742116378
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2014–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Smithville, TX, USA
- Phone
- 5129066620
- Rating
- 44
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $44,656
- Expenses
- $34,941
- Assets
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brad Murphy (President)
People named in this filing
- Brad Murphy (President)
- James Elam (Fire Chief)
- John Johnson (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 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fire Fighting & Rescue in Smithville Area
What it reported doing in 2020
Training & EquipmentTraining new Firefighters
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 4
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 40
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 3.8%; rating input score 4
- Program expense ratio: 4.9%; rating input score 5
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: 21.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -32.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 3.8% of revenue deployed · 4.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2014 to 2020
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 4/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.