Lower Valley Ambulance Service

Analysis

Lower Valley Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Cheswick, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1989, 37 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, Lower Valley Ambulance Service reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.3m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.7m to $1.3m (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lower Valley Ambulance Service 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 81st percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include James Lawrence Kernan Hospital Endowment Fund Incorporated ($1.3m), Guilford Adult Health Inc ($1.3m) and Spastic Paraplegia Foundation Inc ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 10% and program service revenue 85% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $571k. At year end it held assets of $944k against liabilities of $288k, net assets of $656k. It reported 39 employees.