Community Ambulance Service
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237312450
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Marion, SD, USA
- Phone
- 6053668606
- Rating
- 67
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $76,651
- Expenses
- $33,130
- Assets
- $412,864
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BRENDA KIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
- BECKY BUSEMAN (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- DICK LUKE (BOARD MEMBER)
- AMY PICEK (BOARD MEMBER)
- BRENDA KIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide volunteer first aid, emergency and other medical services to individuals in the community of marion, South Dakota and the surrounding area. The organization also owns, operates and maintains ambulances or other rescue vehicles used in providing medical transportation for the individuals served.
What it reported doing in 2024
To provide volunteer first aid, emergency and other medical services and medical transportation to individuals in marion, South Dakota and the surrounding area.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 84% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 58
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 37.4%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 92.8%; rating input score 93
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.8%; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 12.46; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 23.3%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -7% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0% per year; rating input score 0; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 37.4% of revenue deployed · 92.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $31K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 7/100.