Lakes Region Ems Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237146628
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- North Branch, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6512774911
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,969,464
- Expenses
- $10,230,209
- Assets
- $17,270,066
- Liabilities
- $1,543,811
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AARRON REINERT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AARRON REINERT (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $292,294 total reported compensation
- BEN WASMUND (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $265,734 total reported compensation
- MICHELLE ANDERSON (DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION): $218,292 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To lease, maintain and operate an emergency rescue and ambulance service which will serve the chisago lakes, mn area to render aid to the sick, injured or disabled without regard to race, creed, or to station in life. To serve the social welfare of people of the area.
What it reported doing in 2025
The ambulance service, staffed by trained personnel, provides ambulance service for the communities of chisago lakes, rush city, and north branch, Minnesota, as well as a part of polk county in Wisconsin.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 72
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.5%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.69; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.09; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.7%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $8.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $292K · 13 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $940K reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.