Cottage Ambulance Foundation

Analysis

Cottage Ambulance Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Carbondale, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 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 supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending May 2023, Cottage Ambulance Foundation reported income of $1.9m and spending of $1.5m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from May 2020 to May 2023, income grew from $1.7m to $1.9m (+11%), an average of +3.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to May 2022, when income rose by 84%. Over the whole period it spent 98% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cottage Ambulance Foundation sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 84th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Patronus Inc ($1.9m), Washington Elks Therapy Program for Children Inc ($1.9m) and Fundacion Cap Inc ($1.9m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending May 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 17% and program service revenue 83% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.3m. At year end it held assets of $186k against liabilities of $77k, net assets of $109k. It reported 64 employees.