Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance

Analysis

Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance is a registered charity in United States, based in Bergenfield, NJ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 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 (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, Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance reported income of $155k and spending of $307k, spending 198% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $218k to $155k (-29%), an average of -8.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 124% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bergenfield Volunteer Ambulance sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 48th percentile, and in the 55th percentile within NJ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hero House ($155k), Light House Sober Living ($155k) and Adirondack Health Regional Medical PC ($155k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 17 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.