Haddam Volunteer Ambulance Assoc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 060960697
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Higganum, CT, USA
- Phone
- 8603454460
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $633,892
- Expenses
- $565,637
- Assets
- $446,253
- Liabilities
- $87,090
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joseph Arabas (Assistant ChiefVice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Joseph Arabas (Assistant ChiefVice President): $37,423 total reported compensation
- Elaine Carlton (Board MemberSecretary): $11,370 total reported compensation
- Cindy Sadlowski (Treasurer): $9,600 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Providing ambulance service to the towns of haddam & higganum, ct.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 44
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 22
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.8%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.79; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.4%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -7.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 2 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $566K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $37K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 8 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 24/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.