Emergency Ambulance of Devils Lake

Analysis

Emergency Ambulance of Devils Lake is a registered charity in United States, based in Devils Lake, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1996, 30 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, Emergency Ambulance of Devils Lake reported income of $1.5m and spending of $2.0m, spending 134% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.9m to $1.5m (-23%), an average of -6.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 108% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Emergency Ambulance of Devils Lake sits at the 68th percentile: it is larger than about 68% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oh Properties Inc ($1.5m), Tip Global Health ($1.5m) and Minding Your Mind ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 5.6% and program service revenue 89% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $2.5m against liabilities of $0, net assets of $2.5m. It reported 32 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.