Spencer Rescue & Emergency Squad Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 046064430
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Spencer, MA, USA
- Phone
- 5088854476
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,052,502
- Expenses
- $1,879,155
- Assets
- $1,917,180
- Liabilities
- $548,312
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VINCENT CLOUTIER (President)
- ARNOLD ARSENAULT (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- JAMES PERVIER (Director)
- JAMES LOVETT (Treasurer)
- VINCENT CLOUTIER (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Spencer rescue & emergency squad, inc. (sres) is an independent, nonprofit ambulance service providing top-notch basic and advanced life support ems services to the residents of spencer, Massachusetts, a central Massachusetts town of nearly 12,000 residents, as well as providing mutual aid as necessary to several surrounding towns. Our mission is to provide clinically superlative and operationally effective prehospital care to the town, its residents and visitors and to be a responsible and innovative participant in the promotion of the region's public health. The organization is overseen by a board of directors, comprised of local business professionals, all of whom volunteer their time to assist in the achievement of the organization's charitable purpose.
What it reported doing in 2024
The spencer rescue & emergency squad, inc. (sres) has forged an unparalleled six decade history of superior prehospital care, compassion and effectiveness. For the tax year ended june 30, 2025, sres responded to 2,242 calls for service, of which, 1,507 resulted in transports. The service also provided ems and rehabilitative services at approximately 30 incident standby responses which consisted of reported fires and other types of calls including but not limited to law enforcement coverage and hazmat calls. Additionally, our service offers multiple continuing education and training opportunities throughout the year, offered both in-house and to personnel from outside agencies. Our greatest strength is in the quality of our ems clinical staff. Sres is well-known in the area as an innovative service that hires only the best providers available, and then holds them to the service's impeccable standards. We insist on continuing clinical excellence and ensure it through frequent lectures and physician-directed rounds, as well as a robust online training website that offers all manner of continuing education. Our staff is one of the most seasoned in new england, including several members with over three decades of high-quality service at one of the country's busiest all-als 911 agencies, and non-transport als. Our command structure is intense enough that standards are met and yet flat enough to entrust our clinical staff with levels of autonomy that, while in-line with state office of emergency medical services expectations and requirements, is also a rarity in our region. We expect and demand a lot from our paramedics and emt's and they rise up to the challenge without exception. Our reviews from former patients are predominantly enthusiastic and we look forward to continuing our tradition of excellence, compassion and service.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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
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: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; 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: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.4%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.02; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 26 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.