Somerset Area Ambulance Association

Analysis

Somerset Area Ambulance Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Somerset, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2026. 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 July 2023, Somerset Area Ambulance Association reported income of $3.4m and spending of $3.2m, spending 93% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from July 2019 to July 2023, income grew from $2.3m to $3.4m (+52%), an average of +11% a year. 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, Somerset Area Ambulance Association 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 88th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Hudson Valley Regional Community Health Centers Inc ($3.4m), Long Island Teen Challenge ($3.4m) and Uvalde Emergency Medical Services Inc ($3.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending July 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 12% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $7,000 (0.2% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.8m. At year end it held assets of $3.2m against liabilities of $533k, net assets of $2.7m. It reported 58 employees.