Northeast Quadrant Advanced Life Support Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161318497
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Webster, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5857879060
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $848,610
- Expenses
- $862,326
- Assets
- $1,832,250
- Liabilities
- $1,449,371
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SYED AHMED MUSTAFA (CEO)
- SYED AHMED MUSTAFA (PRESIDENT)
- MICHAEL POPE (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- SYED AHMED MUSTAFA (CEO): $33,600 total reported compensation
- SYED AHMED MUSTAFA (CHIEF PARAMEDIC): $8,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide advanced life support, pre-hospital care and staffing for life threatening medical and trauma situations for the northeast quadrant of the greater rochester/monroe and wayne county region
What it reported doing in 2024
Achievements relate directly to the organization purpose as stated in the mission statement noted above.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 95% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 89.5%; rating input score 90
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- 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: -1.6%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.12; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.79; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.8%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.7% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 89.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $772K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $34K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 9/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 54/100.