Portage Area Ambulance Association

Analysis

Portage Area Ambulance Association is a registered charity in United States, based in Portage, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2008, 18 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, Portage Area Ambulance Association reported income of $659k and spending of $859k, spending 130% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $547k to $659k (+20%), an average of +4.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 46%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Portage Area Ambulance Association sits at the 59th percentile: it is larger than about 59% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 72nd percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include A Silver Lining Foundation Chicagoland Cancer Info Coalition ($659k), Childrens Surgery International ($659k) and Safe Haven Recovery Engagement Center ($659k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 31% and program service revenue 68% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $485k. At year end it held assets of $395k against liabilities of $205k, net assets of $190k. It reported 28 employees.