Shippensburg Area Emergency Medical Services Inc

Analysis

Shippensburg Area Emergency Medical Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Shippensburg, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1999, 27 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, Shippensburg Area Emergency Medical Services Inc reported income of $2.7m and spending of $2.3m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $2.7m (+58%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 32%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Shippensburg Area Emergency Medical Services Inc sits at the 74th percentile: it is larger than about 74% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 88th percentile, and in the 87th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Erie Family Health Foundation Inc ($2.7m), Mt Sinai Health Care Foundation ($2.7m) and Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma ($2.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 26% and program service revenue 66% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $77k (3.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $4.2m against liabilities of $1.9m, net assets of $2.3m. It reported 59 employees.