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MENDOCINO COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC

EIN 83-0395685 UKIAH, CA

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Revenue 2024
$3,569,409
Expenses 2024
$3,113,269

Program services were 95.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
M24
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 263

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

To inform, empower and mobilize county residents to survive and thrive in a wildfire-prone environment.

  • FIRE FUELS REDUCTION: MCFSC manages grant-funded projects and programs to reduce fuel loads and improve wildfire mitigation in Mendocino County. Using both its own crew and subcontractors, MCFSC provided free defensible-space clearing at the homes of 143 income-qualified seniors and/or disabled residents, supplied 85 days of free chipping services for neighborhood-level defensible-space improvement (serving roughly 700 residences), and conducted 79 free home assessments for wildfire-preparedness. MCFSC's fuel-reduction projects created safer ingress/egress routes and shaded fuel breaks that will slow fires and provide safe workspaces for responders, totaling 410 acres. MCFSC's crew partnered with Sherwood Firewise Communities to clear additional acres in Brooktrails. MCFSC also collaborated with numerous local groups to sponsor or apply for other successful fuel reduction grants such as PG&E funded vegetation management grants. Thanks to a grant from the State Coastal Conservancy, MCFSC added a track mower to its fleet that will improve its ability to deliver community chipping services and work projects in future years.

    Expenses $2,541,354 · Revenue $260,395

  • EDUCATION and OUTREACH: MCFSC conducted outreach and education in support of wildfire preparedness and mitigation through convening and/or attending numerous community meetings, including 113 inter-agency coordination meetings, 56 local neighborhood Fire Safe Council meetings and 37 community events. MCFSC participated in radio interviews, issued print articles, and maintained a resource-rich website, blog and monthly newsletter. There are now over 1,677 subscribers to the newsletter, whose email version was opened 9,135 times this year. Our website has 17,396 users, and this year we recorded 76,645 Facebook hits, and 2,431 views of how-to videos on home-hardening and defensible-space clearing on the MCFSC YouTube channel. MCFSC provided $135,000 of micro-grants to local fire departments and Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils for small but key strategic local preparedness projects. MCFSC continued to partner with other agencies to plan and strategize for wildfire mitigation and preparedness projects. MCFSC hosts regular leadership meetings for its affiliated Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils, which grew last year to 81 countywide. MCFSC encouraged the Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils to obtain Firewise status, increasing the number of Firewise communities in the County from 4 to 14. MCFSC expanded its school outreach and education program in conjunction with the University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center to provide fire science and wildfire preparedness education to 5th grade through middle school ages. 711 students from 16 different schools participated in the program. MCFSC launched a new blog/podcast series with an initial 16 episodes and published new brochures, including two on wildfire smoke management. MCFSC also created and distributed 263 reflective address-number signs.

    Expenses $432,295 · Grants $153,650

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Scott Cratty

    Executive Director

    Total calculated
    $82,812
    From this org
    $82,812
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    41

  • Mike Jones

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlie Kelly

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • Eric Hart

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Nancy Armstrong-Frost

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Joe Zicherman

    Vice-President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sue Carberry

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Bauer

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Anna Garza

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,569,409
    Expenses
    $3,113,269
    Contributions
    $3,278,987
    Grants paid
    $153,650
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,560,660
    Expenses
    $3,299,721
    Contributions
    $3,424,943
    Grants paid
    $118,792
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,297,508
    Expenses
    $1,094,470
    Contributions
    $1,194,723
    Grants paid
    $54,972

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $923,104
    Expenses
    $723,498
    Assets (EOY)
    $602,594

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $660,432
    Expenses
    $495,450
    Assets (EOY)
    $396,845

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $297,279
    Expenses
    $210,104
    Assets (EOY)
    $210,010

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $147,138
    Expenses
    $146,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,451

  • 2018 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $147,138
    Expenses
    $146,928
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,451

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $23,095
    Expenses
    $48,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,208

  • 2017 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $23,095
    Expenses
    $48,815
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,208

  • 2016 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $16,304
    Expenses
    $24,905
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,156

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $61,712
    Expenses
    $55,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $66,642

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $176,389
    Assets (EOY)
    $53,174

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

  • Piercy Volunteer Fire Department

    $13,423

    2024 Generator and Water Equipment

  • Piercy Fire Safe Council

    $12,374

    2024 Fuel Reduction

  • Navarro Fire Sale Council

    $11,041

    2023 Water Tanks & Fittings

  • Blue Rock Road Association

    $10,500

    2024 Water Tanks

  • Covelo Fire Department

    $10,000

    2024 Water Equipment

  • Long Valley FIre Protection District

    $10,000

    2024 Defensible Space Assessment Program

  • Comptche Volunteer Fire Department

    $10,000

    2023 Radio Repeater

  • Westport Fire Safe Council

    $9,984

    2024 Fuel Reduction and Native Replanting

  • Hopland Fire Protection District

    $9,604

    2024 Water Equipment & Backfiring Devices

  • Long Valley Fire Protection District

    $9,000

    2023 Defensible Space Assessment Program

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.