Washington Contract Firefighters Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 460465182
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2021
- Location
- Carlton, WA, USA
- Phone
- 4252396613
- Rating
- 34
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Chambers of Commerce & Business Leagues
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $108,484
- Expenses
- $104,565
- Assets
- $114,556
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Todd Graves (President / Instructor)
Highest reported compensation
- Danielle Sims (Secretary / Treasurer): $30,000 total reported compensation
- Todd Graves (President / Instructor): $9,050 total reported compensation
- Charlie Curtis (Instructor): $6,510 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide individual Washington State contract firefighters a means to become a united voice and purpose for the betterment of all contractors who provide firefighting services to the various government agencies in our state and region. Providing adequate professional (gov't approved) training is the main activity of this association.
What it reported doing in 2025
Our association provides several different training opportunities to maintain and advance wildland firefighters in their careers during our training season which is typically March-June. We offered aprox. 16 - RT-130 refresher training classes per month in various locations across Washington State. We offered 6 Beginning Firefighter classes in various locations across Washington State. We also offered 4 Advanced Firefighter classes in various locations across Washington State. We trained aprox. 1060 firefighter for the year. We stand ready to offer more training if needed past our projected end time in June if we have instructors available. In 2024 we offered 2 additional RT-130 classes in July and 1 Field Day. All of our classes are available to members and non-members alike. Our association has a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the US Forest Service to provide this certified training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 9
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 65.8%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -40% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 6 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 10 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- 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 0/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.