Western Area Volunteer Emergency Service Inc

Analysis

Western Area Volunteer Emergency Service Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Camillus, NY. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 1975, 51 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Western Area Volunteer Emergency Service Inc reported income of $3.3m and spending of $3.1m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.3m (+42%), an average of +9.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 90% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Western Area Volunteer Emergency Service Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 90th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within NY. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Brooklyn Hospital Radiology P C ($3.3m), Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance Association Inc ($3.3m) and James Dennis Medical Foundation Inc ($3.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 45% and program service revenue 54% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $448k (14% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $1.3m against liabilities of $70k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 63 employees.