Texas · Nonprofit
CHAMPION EMS
CHAMPION EMS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $647,154 to it, the largest being PINEY WOODS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ($647,154). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $647k
- Net assets
- $9.2M
What Champion EMS does
Mission
To provide high quality, medically effective and operationally efficient emergency medical services to the rural communities of east texas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Champion satisfies the requirements for public charity status under code 509(a)(2) because (I) not more than one-third of its financial support came from gross investment income, and (ii) more than one third of its financial support came from contributions, membership fees, and gross receipts from activities related to its exempt functions, including contributions and gross receipts from entities other than the members. Champion provides high quality medically effective and operationally efficient emergency medical services to the rural communities of east texas.
$38,738,074 spent$34,339,922 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $38,738,074.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $8.8M to $11M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CHAMPION EMS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Shawn Salter
CEO
Board chair
Chris Glenney
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $79k → $58k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $565k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Christus-Trinity Mother Frances Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money CHAMPION EMS raised.
From the IRS filings of CHAMPION EMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of CHAMPION EMS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
CHAMPION EMS receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $647k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,843 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like CHAMPION EMS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 24 related entities
- Christus Health Ark-La-Tex · exempt
- Christus Continuing Care · exempt
- Ch Wilkinson Physician Network · exempt
- Christus Health Foundation · exempt
- Christus Health Central Louisiana · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHAMPION EMS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAMPION EMS?
- CHAMPION EMS (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $647,154 to it, the largest being PINEY WOODS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ($647,154). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHAMPION EMS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $647,154 in grants to CHAMPION EMS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAMPION EMS?
- PINEY WOODS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $647,154 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAMPION EMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing