Elizabethtown-Lewis Emergency Squad

Analysis

Elizabethtown-Lewis Emergency Squad is a registered charity in United States, based in Elizabethtown, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Elizabethtown-Lewis Emergency Squad reported income of $418k and spending of $443k, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $266k to $418k (+57%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 26%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Elizabethtown-Lewis Emergency Squad sits at the 79th percentile: it is larger than about 79% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 67th percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Sarpy County Safety Program Corporation ($418k), Community911 Training Inc ($418k) and The Ickesburg Fire Company Inc ($418k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 39% and program service revenue 60% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $210k. At year end it held assets of $494k against liabilities of $31k, net assets of $462k. It reported 21 employees.