Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services

Analysis

Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services is a registered charity in United States, based in Fort Smith, AR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 1979, 47 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, Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services reported income of $12.0m and spending of $10.7m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.1m to $12.0m (+49%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 85% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within AR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include LA Pine Community Health Center ($12.0m), St John Vianney Center ($12.0m) and North Texas Area Community Health Centers Inc ($12.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 98% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $180k (1.7% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $3.4m. At year end it held assets of $9.2m against liabilities of $353k, net assets of $8.9m. It reported 112 employees.