Massachusetts · Nonprofit
SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC
SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 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 FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $45
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Spencer Rescue & Emergency Squad Inc does
Mission
Spencer rescue & emergency squad, inc. (sres) is an independent, nonprofit ambulance service providing top-notch basic and advanced life support ems services to the residents of spencer, massachusetts, a central massachusetts town of nearly 12,000 residents, as well as providing mutual aid as necessary to several surrounding towns. Our mission is to provide clinically superlative and operationally effective prehospital care to the town, its residents and visitors and to be a responsible and innovative participant in the promotion of the region's public health. The organization is overseen by a board of directors, comprised of local business professionals, all of whom volunteer their time to assist in the achievement of the organization's charitable purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The spencer rescue & emergency squad, inc. (sres) has forged an unparalleled six decade history of superior prehospital care, compassion and effectiveness. For the tax year ended june 30, 2025, sres responded to 2,242 calls for service, of which, 1,507 resulted in transports. The service also provided ems and rehabilitative services at approximately 30 incident standby responses which consisted of reported fires and other types of calls including but not limited to law enforcement coverage and hazmat calls. Additionally, our service offers multiple continuing education and training opportunities throughout the year, offered both in-house and to personnel from outside agencies. Our greatest strength is in the quality of our ems clinical staff. Sres is well-known in the area as an innovative service that hires only the best providers available, and then holds them to the service's impeccable standards. We insist on continuing clinical excellence and ensure it through frequent lectures and physician-directed rounds, as well as a robust online training website that offers all manner of continuing education. Our staff is one of the most seasoned in new england, including several…
$1,699,890 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,699,890.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.5M to $1.7M (+12%).
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: 2020 10% · 2022 1% · 2023 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
1% of SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $16 → $17.
1 of 1 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 SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD 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. $45 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.
Against its field
SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC runs a healthier operating margin 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
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD 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 SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC?
- SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 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 SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45 in grants to SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPENCER RESCUE & EMERGENCY SQUAD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 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