Selby Ambulance Service

Analysis

Selby Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Selby, SD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2006, 20 years ago. Its declared purposes cover public safety, disaster preparedness and relief, which this site groups under armed forces, emergency and public safety. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Selby Ambulance Service reported income of $57k and spending of $64k, spending 112% of what it took in. Across the 3 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2023, income fell from $139k to $57k (-59%), an average of -36% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 59%. Over the whole period it spent 81% of the income it received.

Among 9,128 United States charities whose main cause is armed forces, emergency and public safety and that reported income, Selby Ambulance Service sits at the 21st percentile: it is larger than about 20% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 22nd percentile, and in the 17th percentile within SD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Big Mountain Firefighters Association ($57k), Forestville Citizens Fire Company ($57k) and Singers Glen Volunteer Rescue Squad Inc ($57k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 49% and program service revenue 43% of the total. At year end it held assets of $477k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $477k.