Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE STACKPOLE-HALL FOUNDATION ($21,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $710k
What Emergency Medical Service Institute does
Mission
Direction and coordination of all the resources available for the effective provision of optimal emergency medical services in a sixteen county area within western pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Direction and coordination of all the resources available for the effective provision of optimal emergency medical services in the western pennsylvania region. These efforts are primarily funded by a contract by the pennsylvania department of health.
$3,371,472 spent$1,717 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,371,472.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.8M (+55%).
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 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 95% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 95% · 2023 98% · 2024 94% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Thomas Mcelree
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE’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 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
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
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE's revenue grew 68% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Western Regional EMS Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE: 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 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE?
- EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $21,000 to it, the largest being THE STACKPOLE-HALL FOUNDATION ($21,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $21,000 in grants to EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE?
- THE STACKPOLE-HALL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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