Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc

Analysis

Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Greensburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1984, 42 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, Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc reported income of $25.0m and spending of $26.0m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $14.9m to $25.0m (+68%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 126% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Valley AIDS Council ($25.0m), Wartburg Home of the Evangelical Lutheran Church ($25.0m) and Teche Action Board Inc ($25.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 18% and program service revenue 77% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $155k (0.6% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $13.8m. At year end it held assets of $42.7m against liabilities of $9.4m, net assets of $33.3m. It reported 310 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.