Napoleon Ambulance Service

Analysis

Napoleon Ambulance Service is a registered charity in United States, based in Napoleon, ND. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1975, 51 years ago. 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, Napoleon Ambulance Service reported income of $180k and spending of $215k, spending 120% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $246k to $180k (-27%), an average of -7.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income dropped by 44%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Napoleon Ambulance Service sits at the 50th percentile: it is larger than about 50% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 51st percentile, and in the 44th percentile within ND. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Assembly of God ($180k), Carbon Stillwater Community & Senior Programs ($180k) and Little League Baseball Inc ($180k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 66% and program service revenue 32% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $107k. At year end it held assets of $575k against liabilities of $1,950, net assets of $573k. It reported 20 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.