Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Services

Analysis

Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Allentown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 1991, 35 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 September 2023, Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Services reported income of $12.5m and spending of $11.3m, spending 90% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $12.5m (+543%), an average of +59% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2022, when income rose by 416%. Over the whole period it spent 113% 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, Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Services sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Napa Communities Firewise Foundatio N ($12.3m), Jackson Community Ambulance Inc ($12.9m) and Aopa Foundation ($12.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5.7m. At year end it held assets of $15.2m against liabilities of $18.9m, net assets of -$3.6m. It reported 139 employees.