Wakefield Ambulance Association

Analysis

Wakefield Ambulance Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Peach Bottom, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 2018, 8 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Wakefield Ambulance Association reported income of $550k and spending of $510k, spending 93% of its income. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $305k to $550k (+80%), an average of +34% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 40%. Over the whole period it spent 94% 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, Wakefield Ambulance Association sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 70th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Columbia Hose Co No 1 Volunteer Fire Dept ($549k), Willamette Valley First Responder Chaplains ($550k) and Brown County Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated ($548k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 59% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $261k. At year end it held assets of $769k against liabilities of $12k, net assets of $757k. It reported 22 employees.