Wilmington Firefighters Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN: 452971369
IRS 990-EZ coverage: 2012–2025
Forms available: Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2011
Location: Wilmington, NC, USA
Phone: 9105080869
Rating: 80
Verdict: STRONG
Rating confidence: Moderate
Sector: Emergency Assistance

Reported finances

Revenue: $22,482
Expenses: $20,649
Assets: $16,481

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

Leadership & pay

4 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

CHRIS STENERSON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

CHRIS STENERSON (PRESIDENT)
DONALD BURNS (TREASURER)
TIM BROCK (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The foundation's mission is to raise money to buid a firefighter memorial to the men and women who have passed away in the line of duty in the wilmington fire department.

What it reported doing in 2025

The foundation's mission is to raise money to build a firefighter memorial to the men and women who have passed away in the line of duty in the wilmington fire department.

Operating model

Revenue model: Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

Financial Efficiency: 90
Transparency & Controls: 82
Sustainability: 46
Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 87
Program expense ratio: 95.3%; rating input score 95

Transparency & Controls

Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

Program expense growth: -13.7% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Revenue growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Asset growth: -5.3% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings

Details

Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 95.3% of spending went to programs
Governance: Filed governance answers
Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $20K in reported program spending
Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
Schedules: 2 filed schedules
Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 42/100.
Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.