Volunteer & Exempt Firemens Benevolent

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
901179819
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
East Meadow, NY, USA
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Personal Social Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$368,743
Expenses
$180,845
Assets
$2,660,789
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANTHONY MESSINA (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT TRASCOY (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JAMES ASPENLEITER Sr (TRUSTEE)
  • KENNETH LONG (TRUSTEE)
  • ARTHUR SPERR (TRUSTEE)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide relief, aid & assistance to members, and families of members who are disabled and/or indigent. To maintain suitable headquarters. To promote and safeguard the welfare of the members of the organization and their families.

What it reported doing in 2025

To provide relief, aid & assistance to members, and families of members who are disabled and/or indigent. To maintain suitable headquarters. To promote and safeguard the welfare of the members of the corporation. To provide for the health and safety of the members of the corporation. To enhance the morale of the members of the corporation by providing social and recreation activities for the members of the corporation and the promotion of the volunteer fire service within the territories that are now or may hereafter be served by the east meadow fire district.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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 most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 33
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 64
  • Sustainability: 87
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 18.4%; rating input score 18
  • Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 14
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 51%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.71; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 18.4% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $122K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 17 of 17 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 18/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.