Stoddard Bergen Fire Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 843772504
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Stoddard, WI, USA
- Phone
- 6084980177
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Safety Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $93,606
- Expenses
- $16,147
- Assets
- $266,947
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRIAN LEHMANN (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH W PFAFF (1ST ASSISTAN)
- DANIELLE ROOT (VICE PRESIDE)
- RICK GARDNER (TREASURER TR)
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
The organization provides community outreach projects in correlation with the stoddard bergen fire department to build community awareness and safety. They do fundraising for when the fire department has a need for additional training, equipment, fire prevention and public awareness. In addition, the foundation provides support during large scale events. They also aid with duties around the firehouse, mailers, cooking, any and all tasks that require extra manpower. The fire department is completely voluntary.
What it reported doing in 2025
See mission statement on schedule o.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 68% for direct work, and 32% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 23.6%; rating input score 24
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
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: 82.8%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 16.53; rating input score 95; 95th 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: -6.1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 19.9% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 23.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $16K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 24/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.