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Portage Area Ambulance Association

Portage Area Ambulance Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ($26,511). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$474k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$52k
Net assets
$50k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Portage Area Ambulance Association does

Mission

Medical assistance and ambulance transportation

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Portage Area Ambulance Association provided ambulance service to Portage borough and surrounding areas throughout the year ended 12/31/24

    $599,538 spentof which $14,422 as grants$348,935 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $599,538.

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 ($629k) Expenses 100 ($540k) Net assets 100 ($442k)2018 Revenue 100 ($632k) Expenses 109 ($590k) Net assets 109 ($483k)2019 Revenue 87 ($547k) Expenses 126 ($679k) Net assets 79 ($351k)2020 Revenue 127 ($802k) Expenses 112 ($607k) Net assets 123 ($546k)2021 Revenue 130 ($818k) Expenses 127 ($686k) Net assets 153 ($678k)2022 Revenue 93 ($583k) Expenses 133 ($721k) Net assets 122 ($540k)2023 Revenue 105 ($659k) Expenses 159 ($859k) Net assets 43 ($190k)2024 Revenue 75 ($474k) Expenses 114 ($613k) Net assets 11 ($50k)
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Revenue (75)Expenses (114)Net assets (11)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 2021 to 2022, from $763k to $575k (−25%).

$468k
$558k
$484k
$663k
$763k
$575k
$395k
$219k
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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 3% · 2018 4% · 2019 5% · 2020 10% · 2021 27% · 2022 10% · 2023 13% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of Portage Area Ambulance Association’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14,893 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.

$89k
’17
$41k
’18
−$132k
’19
$194k
’20
$132k
’21
−$138k
’22
−$200k
’23
−$140k
’24
0.0
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.

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Listed44444447
Joined·+0+0+0+1+0+0+5
No longer listed·0001002
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $25k.

Funder
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'21
'23
'24*
total
$25k
funders
1
1
1
2

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 Portage Area Ambulance Association’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

Portage Area Ambulance Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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

99% 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 Portage Area Ambulance Association.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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

51% of Portage Area Ambulance Association'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. Of the $25k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Portage Area Ambulance Association's revenue fell 25% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−4% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding Portage Area Ambulance Association receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $69k on record.

Federal$69k
grants $69kcontracts $0
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21
Top agencies
  • Department of Homeland Security$69k

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 Portage Area Ambulance Association

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

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Portage Area Ambulance Association?
Portage Area Ambulance Association (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $51,811 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ($26,511). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Portage Area Ambulance Association have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $51,811 in grants to Portage Area Ambulance Association, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Portage Area Ambulance Association?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN is the largest funder on record, with $26,511 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Portage Area Ambulance Association 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.

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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 3 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