Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service

Analysis

Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Spearfish, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1977, 49 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, Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service reported income of $1.7m and spending of $1.8m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.7m (+17%), an average of +3.9% a year. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Spearfish Emergency Ambulance Service sits at the 70th percentile: it is larger than about 70% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 84th percentile, and in the 83rd percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Center for Pranic Healing Inc ($1.7m), Brent Woodall Foundation for Exceptional Children ($1.7m) and Otto Schoitz Foundation ($1.7m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $261k (15% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $740k. At year end it held assets of $802k against liabilities of $127k, net assets of $675k. It reported 42 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.