Youngsville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 721066837
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Youngsville, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3378566906
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fire Prevention
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,713,748
- Expenses
- $2,642,295
- Assets
- $2,454,621
- Liabilities
- $1,292,517
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- RICHARD BRESNAHAN (President)
- BEAU BOUTTE (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- BLAIR RIVETTE (Fire Chief): $122,853 total reported compensation
- RICHARD BRESNAHAN (President): $82,855 total reported compensation
- GRAYSON BOLGIANO (Secretary): $82,569 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Fire protection services
What it reported doing in 2024
The youngsville volunteer fire department provides fire fighting services to the residents of the city of youngsville.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Affiliate-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions from related organizations.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 38
- Sustainability: 36
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.6%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 98.2%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.93; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.53; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.3% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 35th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.6% of revenue deployed · 98.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 10 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $123K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.