Mercy Health
Legal name: Lifestar Ambulance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 341354653
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2019
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2019
- Location
- Toledo, OH, USA
- Phone
- 877-918-5400
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,688,137
- Expenses
- $2,462,866
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We extend the compassionate ministry of Jesus by improving the health and well-being of our communities and brings good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved.
What it reported doing in 2019
The primary exempt purpose of lifestar ambulance service, inc. Is to transfer patients and provide transportation in emergency situations to mercy health - st. Vincent medical center llc, mercy health - st. Charles hospital llc, mercy health - st. Anne hospital llc, mercy health - tiffin hospital llc, mercy health - willard hospital llc, and other communities for which it serves.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 63
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: 60%; rating input score 60; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -45.9%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -15.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -11.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 5 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $10K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2010 to 2019
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 139 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.