Cherokee County Ambulance Association Inc

Analysis

Cherokee County Ambulance Association Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Columbus, KS. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1974, 52 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, Cherokee County Ambulance Association Inc reported income of $1.9m and spending of $2.0m, spending 106% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.2m to $1.9m (+61%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Cherokee County Ambulance Association Inc sits at the 71st percentile: it is larger than about 71% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 85th percentile, and in the 86th percentile within KS. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Empower House Sa ($1.9m), Urban Minority Alcoholism Outreach Program of Lucas County Inc ($1.9m) and Mercy Ministries of Laredo ($1.8m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 35% and program service revenue 62% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.1m. At year end it held assets of $1.5m against liabilities of $48k, net assets of $1.5m. It reported 31 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.