Minnesota · Nonprofit
LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE
LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATON ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Lake County Ambulance Service does
Mission
To provide medical ambulance and auxiliary services to the public regardless of their ability to pay, insurance coverage, or governmental reimbursement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Lake County Ambulance Service (lcas) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides emergency medical care treatment and transportation in northeastern minnesota. Lcas is a part-time advanced life support ambulance service whose primary service area (psa) includes lake, cook, and st. Louis counties. The communities we serve include two harbors, silver bay, beaver bay, finland, isabella, brimson, and knife river. Our psa area covers an area of approximately 1535 square miles. According to the 2020 census, lake county had a population of 10,905. Lake county encompasses a sparsely populated, heavily forested area along the northshore of lake superior and is considered "super rural." lcas staffs two stations: a base of operations in the city of two harbors and a substation 30 miles north in the city of silver bay. Lcas has 30 employees who provide ambulance coverage and support operations. The majority of our staff is made up of emts, with the remaining staff made up of paramedics and administrative staff. A board of directors oversees lcas, comprised of 5 voting members and a medical director who is contracted through aspirus lake view hospital. In 2025, lcas responded to 1,583…
$1,794,947 spent$1,446,124 earned by the program96% of program spendingLake county works to create a comprehensive and accessible high school emt program that equips students with the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience to successfully pass the emt certification exam and pursue a career in emergency medical services, contributing to the community's healthcare workforce.
$80,833 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,875,780.
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 2019 to 2020, from $761k to $1.1M (+43%).
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 31% · 2018 33% · 2019 32% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% · 2024 43% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Randy Strohmeyer
Executive director
Board chair
Derrick Goutermont
Board chair
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 LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE’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 LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE's grant income comes from Minnesota 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
LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE: 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 LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE?
- LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being FIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATON ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE.
- Who is the largest funder of LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE?
- FIRST COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATON is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAKE COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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