New Jersey · Nonprofit
Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp
Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,495 to it, the largest being HUDSON LUTHERAN CHARITY INC ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $556k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $138k
- Net assets
- $565k
What Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp does
Mission
The Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp the Corp provides BLS level emergency medical services to the residents and visitors in the City Hoboken and the surrounding communities. The Corp provides these services at no charge to its patients and is entirely supported by the volunteer hours of its members and the financial support of its donors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp the Corp provides BLS level emergency medical services to the City of Hoboken and its residents and visitors. During the fiscal year ended, the Corp answered over 3,500 calls for service. Whether operating during normal times or during declared states of emergency, the Corp and its members are trained and prepared for the wide range of emergency services it faces from medical emergencies, accidents and trauma, CPR, seizures, to courtesy transports and community outreach. As the last all volunteer ambulance agency in Hudson County, all Corp operations and Corp administrative functions are performed by over 200 members who volunteer their time and share their talent with the Corp and with the residents of the City. The Corp continues to rely of the skills and contributions of the members to fill the necessary roles as EMTs, Drivers, Observers and Officers. Keeping the City covered with 1 to 4 ambulances 24 hours a day, 365 days a year requires between 20,000 to 70,000 volunteer hours per year.
$445,127 spent$555,827 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $445,127.
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 $504k to $643k (+28%).
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: 2019 70% · 2020 63% · 2021 73% · 2022 56% · 2023 76% · 2024 8% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Joseph Zelasko Captain
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $1k → $7k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $840k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Hoboken Emergency Medical Services Corp). These are real filings, and they are not money Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp raised.
From the IRS filings of Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp’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
Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2020 38% · 2021 86% · 2022 91% · 2023 86% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
60% of Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
95% of Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $118k on record.
- FEDERAL$118k
- TRUST FUND$148
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hoboken Emergency Medical Services Corp · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp: 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 Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp?
- Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp (New Jersey) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,495 to it, the largest being HUDSON LUTHERAN CHARITY INC ($100,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $138,495 in grants to Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp?
- HUDSON LUTHERAN CHARITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hoboken Volunteer Ambulance Corp find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 10 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