West Shore Advanced Life Support Services Inc

Analysis

West Shore Advanced Life Support Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Danville, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1986, 40 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, West Shore Advanced Life Support Services Inc reported income of $8.9m and spending of $14.7m, spending 165% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from June 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $17.9m to $8.9m (-50%), an average of -13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, West Shore Advanced Life Support Services Inc sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 93rd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Rescue Inc ($8.9m), Mississippi Public Health Institute ($8.9m) and First Care Clinic Inc ($8.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $6.4m. At year end it held assets of $4.3m against liabilities of $3.8m, net assets of $451k. It reported 171 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.