Zion Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
611191966
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Henderson, KY, USA
Phone
2708600771
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Fire Prevention

Reported finances

Revenue
$116,693
Expenses
$101,363
Assets
$323,333
Liabilities
$98,787

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRAD PINKSTON (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • BRAD PINKSTON (PRESIDENT)
  • JIM STONE (VICE PRESIDE)
  • SHELIA PATTERSON (TREASURER)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

When sufficient, qualified, and trained personnel are avaialable to accomplish the mission, operation, or response, zion volunteer fire department (zvfd) assists or is responsible for responding to emergencies in the zion community.

What it reported doing in 2024

Zvfd is responsible for providing fire coverage, search and rescue of fire victims, providing medical responder personnel, providing severe weather spotters to report damage areas, providing traffic control, and gathering information to control hazardous materials. Zvfd also assists other agencies in extracting trapped victims in vehicles, searching for missing persons on land, evacuating buildings, and any other reconnaissance or medical/clean-up operation requested by emergency agencies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 94% 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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending 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: 55
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 66
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.8%; rating input score 52
  • Program expense ratio: 59.1%; rating input score 59

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 13.1%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.19; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.9% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 13.5% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.8% of revenue deployed · 59.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $60K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.