New Orleans Emergency Medical Services Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 270225212
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- New Orleans, LA, USA
- Phone
- 2024867378
- Rating
- 78
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Search and Rescue Squads
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $17,293
- Expenses
- $14,386
- Assets
- $77,849
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BLAKE RIKARD (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- BLAKE RIKARD (PRESIDENT)
- MERRY MCSWAIN (VICE PRESIDE)
- JESSICA PELOUS (TREASURER)
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
Purpose is to support the new orleans emergency medical services (ems) by providing certain emergency-related goods and equipment to new orleans ems, as well as investing in equipment, community outreach, professional development training, and other programs and activities in the city of new orleans, including without limitation, supporting the efforts or, and raising and distributing funds to new orleans ems. The rold of the foundation is not to displace funding for basic emergency medical services, or to reduse any of the responsibility of the city of new orleans to commit the necessary funding for emergency medical services for its citizens and visitors. Rather, as emergency medical services evolve and innovate to handle the growing medical needs of the population that they serve, similar to emergency medical services across the country, there is increasing demand to stay current in training, technology and equipment, personnel support, and outreach.
What it reported doing in 2024
The foundation was able to support the men and women of new orleans ems with emergency related specialty training, equipment, and professional development as well as morale boosting events in the form of grants to new orleans ems personnel.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.2%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 90.4%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 16.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.41; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -11.9% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 75.2% of revenue deployed · 90.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $13K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.