Topton Community Ambulance

Analysis

Topton Community Ambulance is a registered charity in United States, based in Mertztown, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1996, 30 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, Topton Community Ambulance reported income of $1.6m and spending of $1.2m, leaving 26% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $631k to $1.6m (+148%), an average of +26% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Topton Community Ambulance sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Central Peninsula Health Foundation ($1.6m), Shelby Lavine Family Foundation ($1.6m) and Southern Coalition for Housing Opportunities ($1.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 19% and program service revenue 80% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $677k. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $439k, net assets of $1.7m. It reported 47 employees.