Venus Volunteer Fire Department

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 752458714
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2016–2019
Forms available: Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2019
Location: Venus, TX, USA
Phone: 9723668406
Rating: 78
Verdict: SUPPORTED
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue: $141,794
Expenses: $117,490
Assets: $225,986
Liabilities: $399,333

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

People named in this filing

JAYSON DELEON (Fire Chief)
RON HEARN (Training Officer)
JERRY LOFTIN (Treasurer)

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 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Venus Fire Dept provides ems fire rescue service

What it reported doing in 2019

The Venus Volunteer Fire Department is responsible for providing fire ems and rescue services to a 46 square mile area of rural Johnson county in Texas

Operating model

Revenue model: Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model: Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for member benefits.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 89
Transparency & Controls: 75
Sustainability: 65
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 82.8%; rating input score 83
Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 17.1%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.77; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -23.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 82.8% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $117K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 3 filing years from 2016 to 2019
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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.