Morning Sun Community Ambulance Service

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
421322329
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cedar Rapids, IA, USA
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Reported finances

Revenue
$191,829
Expenses
$134,035
Assets
$141,402
Liabilities
$70,562

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

People named in this filing

  • Barb Pealer (Assistant Service Director)
  • Thomas Bryant (Service Director & Treasurer)
  • Ron Richenberger (Secretary & Transportation Director)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Provide Ambulance Services in Morning Sun Iowa and surrounding area.

What it reported doing in 2025

Provided ambulance services in Morning Sun Iowa and surrounding area during 2023.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 63% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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. Assets have declined or grown slowly and liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.3%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1.8% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.6% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $134K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 8 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 5 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 — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.