Plains Volunteer Ambulance Association

Analysis

Plains Volunteer Ambulance Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Plains, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1997, 29 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, Plains Volunteer Ambulance Association reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.3m (+13%), an average of +2.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 20%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Plains Volunteer Ambulance Association sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lemars Area Dialysis Services ($1.3m), Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey ($1.3m) and Save One Life Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from program service revenue 98% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $754k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $206k, net assets of $972k. It reported 39 employees.