Bedford Area Ambulance Service

Analysis

Bedford Area Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Bedford, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1976, 50 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 August 2023, Bedford Area Ambulance Service reported income of $1.3m and spending of $1.6m, spending 119% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from August 2019 to August 2023, income grew from $1.1m to $1.3m (+20%), an average of +4.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to August 2020, when income rose by 24%. Over the whole period it spent 106% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Bedford Area 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 Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc ($1.3m), Floyd Valley Hospital Foundation ($1.3m) and Ias ($1.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending August 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.0% and program service revenue 87% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $915k. At year end it held assets of $1.7m against liabilities of $321k, net assets of $1.4m. It reported 30 employees.