The Pennsylvania Fire & Emergency Services Institute Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232653140
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- 7174975306
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $121,292
- Expenses
- $101,906
- Assets
- $220,884
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- WILLIAM C RIGBY (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- WILLIAM C RIGBY (PRESIDENT)
- JOHN SLY (VICE-PRESIDE)
- ED MANN (SECRETARY)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide education and research for fire & emergency services
What it reported doing in 2024
Educational material & seminars for fire and emergency personnel throughout the year. Research and education as to various issues affecting fire and emergency services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 82.1%; rating input score 82
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: 16%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.17; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -54.2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.9% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 82.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $84K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.