Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 411845488
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Winona, MN, USA
- Phone
- 5074525351
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,844,409
- Expenses
- $2,608,410
- Assets
- $1,683,530
- Liabilities
- $1,587,464
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Rachelle Heising-Schultz (President/CEO/Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Matthew Broghammer MD (Director): $632,019 total reported compensation
- Rachelle Heising-Schultz (President/CEO/Director): $581,915 total reported compensation
- Katrina Hammel MD (Director): $422,762 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.
What it reported doing in 2024
Winona Area Ambulance Service will provide excellence in patient care & education and commit to continuously improving the quality of the services we provide. WAAS provides advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.WAAS is committed to our community by providing the highest level of clinical care and putting patient safety and quality first. It means treating our patients, their families, first responders, other medical providers, co-workers and all others that we come into contact with, with respect, compassion, and dignity. We believe that our core values (Continued on Schedule O)accurately communicate the things that drive us as an organization. As employees of Winona Area Ambulance Service, Inc. we are expected to live the values and embrace the spirit of our behavioral standards, holding each other professionally accountable.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 93% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 68.8%; rating input score 69; 11th 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: 8.3%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.94; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.1%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.4% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 16 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $632K · 19 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.