South River Engine Co 1 Volunteer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 562572664
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- South River, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7329042313
- Rating
- 39
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $13,626
- Expenses
- $22,365
- Assets
- $53,560
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wayne Wagner (President)
- Tony Ciulla (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Wayne Wagner (President)
- Tony Ciulla (Vice President)
- Peter Guindi (Treasurere)
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
To ensure public safety and to protect property Fire departments serve several key purposes: Respond to fires and extinguish them effectively. Conduct fire prevention education and community outreach. Provide emergency medical services and first aid. Perform rescue operations in various emergency situations. Inspect buildings for fire code compliance and safety hazards. Investigate the causes of fires to improve safety measures.
What it reported doing in 2025
Maintain Fire Engines and Respond to Fire CallsProvide protection for the comunityFirst Aid for injuries and hazardeous incident
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 78% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -64.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 70; 70th 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: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 10/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.