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MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM

MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$13M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$0
Net assets
$8.5M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Mobile County Emergency Medical Services System does

Mission

Provider of rural pre-hospital care, emergency medical education and training and medical dispatch communications

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Emergency medical treatment and ambulance transport of residents of mobile county, including training of volunteers and operating the 911 dispatch services.

    $8,262,391 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,262,391.

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 ($5.4M) Expenses 100 ($6.1M) Net assets 100 ($2.8M)2018 Revenue 127 ($6.9M) Expenses 102 ($6.2M) Net assets 123 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 130 ($7.0M) Expenses 116 ($7.0M) Net assets 122 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 161 ($8.6M) Expenses 124 ($7.6M) Net assets 161 ($4.5M)2021 Revenue 166 ($9.0M) Expenses 139 ($8.5M) Net assets 179 ($5.0M)2022 Revenue 170 ($9.2M) Expenses 151 ($9.2M) Net assets 277 ($7.7M)2023 Revenue 232 ($13M) Expenses 171 ($10M) Net assets 351 ($9.8M)2024 Revenue 233 ($13M) Expenses 228 ($14M) Net assets 304 ($8.5M)
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Revenue (233)Expenses (228)Net assets (304)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 2022 to 2023, from $8.5M to $12M (+37%).

$3.5M
$4.4M
$4.4M
$5.5M
$5.9M
$8.5M
$12M
$10M
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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
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 30% · 2018 24% · 2019 23% · 2020 31% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 27% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

17% of MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,743 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$705k
’17
$652k
’18
−$41k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$506k
’21
−$5k
’22
$2.1M
’23
−$1.3M
’24
3.1
months of
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

Mark Turner

Executive director

Board chair

Stephen Bowden

Board chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed66666666
Joined·+2+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·2000000
03Who funds it
04Its place in the field

Against its field

MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 41%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

97%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM: 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 MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM?
MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM (Alabama) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $0 to it, the largest being FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ($0). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $0 in grants to MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM?
FIREHOUSE SUBS PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $0 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MOBILE COUNTY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES SYSTEM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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