Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service Inc

Analysis

Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Gillespie, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1991, 35 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, Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service Inc reported income of $4.0m and spending of $3.8m, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.1m to $4.0m (+92%), an average of +18% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 35%. Over the whole period it spent 91% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Gillespie-Benld Area Ambulance Service Inc sits at the 77th percentile: it is larger than about 77% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 91st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Pro Youth and Families Inc ($4.0m), Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky Inc ($4.0m) and Clinch River Health Services Inc ($4.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.4% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $38k (1.0% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $3.4m against liabilities of $464k, net assets of $2.9m. It reported 51 employees.