Western Area Volunteer Emergency Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 237442271
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Camillus, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154871212
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,275,376
- Expenses
- $3,305,350
- Assets
- $1,237,118
- Liabilities
- $13,740
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARY EARL (PRESIDENT)
- DAVID PHILIPPONE (VICE PRESIDENT)
- ERIC KEHOE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- ZACHARY MCDONOUGH (PARAMEDIC): $149,980 total reported compensation
- ERIC KEHOE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $141,957 total reported compensation
- DARRYL MAWSON (PARAMEDIC): $141,733 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Western area volunteer emergency services, inc. (waves) is a community-based provider of emergency services that maintains the duty to earn the confidence, trust and respect of those we serve by providing dedicated, compassionate and courteous expert care wherever we are needed. The mission of waves is fulfilled through teamwork, education and leadership. Clinical excellence is combined with courage, integrity and diligence to cultivate a mastery of the art and science of pre-hospital emergency care. Waves will serve as the leading provider of emergency medical services by:1 - creating a supportive environment for our members that fosters learning and promotes team building.2 - providing uncompromising care utilizing all available resources.3 - providing quality education to our members and our communities.4 - supporting the communities we serve by maintaining a strong presence and participating in community events.
What it reported doing in 2024
Waves' professional training program provides community education, professional instruction in first aid, cpr, pals, acls, blood borne pathogens, hazardous communications, babysitting classes and pet first aid along with raising supplemental income for the ambulance program and operations. Waves also participates in the nys doh ems cme recertification program, which entails training our providers in all core didactic materials, and all practical skills on a continuing basis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: $146.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 90; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 10th 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.3%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 86.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $2.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $150K · 16 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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.
- 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 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.