Delta Ambulance Corp

Analysis

Delta Ambulance Corp is a registered charity in United States, based in Waterville, ME. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Delta Ambulance Corp reported income of $6.3m and spending of $8.4m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $8.0m to $6.3m (-21%), an average of -5.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 115% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Delta Ambulance Corp sits at the 81st percentile: it is larger than about 81% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 93rd percentile, and in the 92nd percentile within ME. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Ambulance Service Corporation Inc ($6.3m), Pallottine Health Services ($6.3m) and Seasons Hospice ($6.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $228k (2.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $4.7m. At year end it held assets of $5.1m against liabilities of $3.0m, net assets of $2.1m. It reported 110 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.