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EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,891 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($77,162). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$1k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$78k
Net assets
$11k
2/2 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Emergency Medical Services Fund Inc does

Mission

The EMS Fund's purpose is to enhance the effectiveness of organizations that provide volunteer emergency medical services to the general public in the communities in which they operate by providing financial support or equipment to them so that these organizations can provide the highest quality emergency medical services possible.

As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. 2023 was a quiet year. We worked on a number of potential grants that didn't come through. 2024 looks like it will be a more active year.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($97k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($53k)2019 Revenue 20 ($20k) Expenses 37 ($17k) Net assets 11 ($6k)2020 Revenue 1 ($633) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 12 ($6k)2021 Revenue 3 ($3k) Expenses 0 ($3) Net assets 17 ($9k)2022 Revenue 10 ($10k) Expenses 18 ($8k) Net assets 20 ($10k)2023 Revenue 1 ($1k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 22 ($11k)
201720192020202120222023
Revenue (1)Expenses (0)Net assets (22)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $6k to $9k (+43%).

$53k
$6k
$6k
$9k
$10k
$11k
201720192020202120222023
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,797 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
$3k
’19
$633
’20
$3k
’21
$1k
’22
$1k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $89.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
2
1
2
1
1
1

2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC’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.

How concentrated its funding is

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 SERVICES FUND INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2023.

Operating margin100% · outside the comparable range
Revenue growth (annualized)−53% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,153 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC: 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 SERVICES FUND INC?
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC (Vermont) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $77,891 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($77,162). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $77,891 in grants to EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $77,162 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 2 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