White Horse Fire Company

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232657875
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
GAP, PA, USA
Phone
7177683454
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$824,296
Expenses
$804,333
Assets
$2,816,975
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

19 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DAVID LAPP (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
  • MELVIN LANTZ (VICE PRESIDENT - FIRE)
  • SYLVIA STOLTZFUS (VICE PRESIDENT - LADIES AUXILIARY)
  • ALVIN STOLTZFUS (VICE PRESIDENT - EMS DIVISION)

People named in this filing

  • MICHAEL STOLTZFUS (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVEN F STOLTZFUS (DIRECTOR)
  • STEVEN KING (DIRECTOR)

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

The fire company's mission is to protect the village of white horse and other assigned areas of salisbury township, lancaster county, Pennsylvania against loss by fire and to provide fire and rescue related emergency services and basic life support ambulance services with personnel that are 100% volunteer.

What it reported doing in 2025

The organization's primary program service accomplishment is providing fire protection, rescue services, and emergency medical basic life support services to the village of white horse, salisbury township, lancaster county, Pennsylvania as well as to provide these same services to adjacent areas through mutual aid agreements with other lancaster county and chester county fire and ambulance companies. All services are provided by volunteer firefighters and volunteer emergency medical technicians that receive no compensation for the services they provide. Program service revenue is generated through the billing of insurance companies for the basic life support emergency medical services that are provided. No billing for services is done for fire protection and rescue services.

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 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 available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 6
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 94.3%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 95.7%; rating input score 96
  • Fundraising efficiency: $27.43 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th 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: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th 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: 2.4%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.5; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 24% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 94.3% of revenue deployed · 95.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 1 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $770K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 19 people listed
  • Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 6 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.