Dell Rapids Community Ambulance Service

Analysis

Dell Rapids Community Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Dell Rapids, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2025. 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 2022, Dell Rapids Community Ambulance Service reported income of $507k and spending of $425k, spending 84% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2022, income grew from $364k to $507k (+39%), an average of +12% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Dell Rapids Community Ambulance Service sits at the 55th percentile: it is larger than about 55% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 70th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Unity Recovery Services Inc ($507k), Global Initiative for Asthma Inc ($507k) and Planned Lifetime Assistance Network of California ($507k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2022, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 52% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $25k (5.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $190k. At year end it held assets of $513k against liabilities of $5,865, net assets of $507k. It reported 28 employees.