Tuppers Plains Volunteer Fire Dept
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 311286479
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Tuppers Plains, OH, USA
- Phone
- 3307151319
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $127,234
- Expenses
- $132,962
- Assets
- $68,131
- Liabilities
- $102,973
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSHUA BARTON (PRESIDENT)
- RICk JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- COLLETTE JOHNSON (TREASURER)
- JOSHUA BARTON (PRESIDENT)
- RICk JOHNSON (VICE PRESIDENT)
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
Volunteer fire department
What it reported doing in 2025
To provide fire safety and education to the tuppers plains Ohio community
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 86% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 62.7%; rating input score 63
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -4.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.51; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.51; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.2% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 62.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $83K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.