Upper Valley Ambulance Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030322710
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairlee, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8023334043
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,060,181
- Expenses
- $1,965,672
- Assets
- $1,212,678
- Liabilities
- $69,057
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ALAN BEEBE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 2/5/24)
- ZACHARY BRYAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 2/5/24)
Highest reported compensation
- ZACHARY BRYAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AS OF 2/5/24): $115,741 total reported compensation
- ALAN BEEBE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR THRU 2/5/24): $23,012 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
A pre-hospital service whose primary focus is to provide high-quality emergency care to its nine member towns. The organization is committed to providing efficient, prompt, and creative transportation systems both on a local and on a regional basis. The organization will meet the ongoing healthcare needs of the communities it serves, and will strive to provide total customer satisfaction. The organization will be proactive in seeking new opportunities to fulfill this mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provided 24-hour emergency services for a nine town region. Responded to requests for assistance from individuals. Provided non-emergency transfers as requested by local hospitals and nursing homes. Provided ambulance coverage for special events and offered training courses to the public.
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: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.2%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.6%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.62; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.1%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 81.2% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $116K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.