Community Ambulance Service

Analysis

Community Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Zanesville, OH. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1995, 31 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 December 2023, Community Ambulance Service reported income of $9.4m and spending of $10.8m, spending 114% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $6.9m to $9.4m (+37%), an average of +8.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 22%. Over the whole period it spent 109% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Community Ambulance Service sits at the 84th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within OH. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moravian Care Housing Corporation ($9.4m), Loretto Living Center at Loretto Motherhouse Inc ($9.4m) and Wahiawa Center for Community Health ($9.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.6% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $5.7m. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $1.6m, net assets of $3.0m. It reported 164 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.