Tri-community Volunteer Fire Dept
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 626047226
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Collegedale, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4238945231
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,979,586
- Expenses
- $2,603,509
- Assets
- $12,967,911
- Liabilities
- $853,433
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL BARTO (PRESIDENT/CH)
Highest reported compensation
- DUANE PITTS (FIRE CHIEF/B): $102,640 total reported compensation
- STEVE WRIGHT (ASST FIRE CH): $77,210 total reported compensation
- DAVID L HUISMAN (SECRETARY/TR): $14,504 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Tri-community is a full-service emergency response agency performing crisis mitigation by offering fire suppression, fire prevention, technical and vehicle rescue, inspection and code enforcement, medical first response with both basic and advanced life support, and public assistance calls.
What it reported doing in 2024
Volunteer fire department provides fire protection services for the tri- community area. The department also provides services related to public fire safety, fire code enforcement, medical first responders, vehicle and confined space rescues and hazardous substance responses.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 71% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 59
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 56.3%; rating input score 56
- Program expense ratio: 90.9%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $65.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 34.6%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.98; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.5%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 56.3% of revenue deployed · 90.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $2.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 7 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $234K reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 39/100.