Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 222757306
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Stamford, CT, USA
- Phone
- 2039681118
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,637,681
- Expenses
- $12,385,439
- Assets
- $9,216,953
- Liabilities
- $1,226,685
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EDWARD BROWNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- EDWARD BROWNE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $344,354 total reported compensation
- EDWARD PODGORSKI (ASSISTANT CHIEF): $236,863 total reported compensation
- JOSEPH LARCHEVEQUE (DEPUTY CHIEF): $215,169 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The basic beliefs and philosophies of the corporation are to provide the residents of the city of stamford with high quaility professional emergency medical services, including advanced life support services and to promote awareness of the services available to them to treat each patient, coworker and volunteer in a professional, courteous and compassionate manner. To render treatment to all patients as prescribed and directed by the medical control authority and the state of Connecticut office of emergency medical services. To never deny any person treatment because of their inability to pay for services rendered. To promote volunteering as an important source of community contact and service. To provide interested volunteers a place of training and development for entering the ems profession. To operate its business in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation and any governing laws of the state of Connecticut, department of public health, office of emergency medical services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Sems' goal is to provide consistent, compassionate, high quality, pre-hospital paramedic service to the citizens and visitors of stamford. We also provide paramedic intercept service to the neighboring town of darien. In the last year sems responded to 18,007 calls for help including 628 responses to darien. 7,670 of those calls required our highly trained paramedics to perform advanced life support (als) interventions. Sems responded to over 93% of all calls within the american heart association recommended target of 8 minutes and sems has an average response time of 4.69 minutes to als calls.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.86 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.5%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.8% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $344K · 29 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 2/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 13/100.