Connecticut · Nonprofit
STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,979 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($42,449). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $8.0M
What Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc does
Mission
The basic beliefs and philosophies of the corporation are to provide the residents of the city of stamford with high quaility professional emergency medical services, including advanced life support services and to promote awareness of the services available to them to treat each patient, coworker and volunteer in a professional, courteous and compassionate manner. To render treatment to all patients as prescribed and directed by the medical control authority and the state of connecticut office of emergency medical services. To never deny any person treatment because of their inability to pay for services rendered. To promote volunteering as an important source of community contact and service. To provide interested volunteers a place of training and development for entering the ems profession. To operate its business in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation and any governing laws of the state of connecticut, department of public health, office of emergency medical services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sems' goal is to provide consistent, compassionate, high quality, pre-hospital paramedic service to the citizens and visitors of stamford. We also provide paramedic intercept service to the neighboring town of darien. In the last year sems responded to 18,007 calls for help including 628 responses to darien. 7,670 of those calls required our highly trained paramedics to perform advanced life support (als) interventions. Sems responded to over 93% of all calls within the american heart association recommended target of 8 minutes and sems has an average response time of 4.69 minutes to als calls.
$10,829,861 spent$12,025,847 earned by the program99% of program spendingSems academy offers quality training programs for all levels of emergency medical service providers. From cpr and bloodborne pathogens to advanced life support courses to continuing education and emergency medical services liaisons, sems academy supports health professional education and training needs throughout the area.
$77,429 spent$185,729 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,907,290.
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.
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 $5.4M to $6.7M (+24%).
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: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Edward Browne
Executive director
Board chair
Marc Kurzman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $14k → $9k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 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.
How concentrated its funding is
STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
72% 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 STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 51% · 2019 50% · 2020 65% · 2021 54% · 2022 41% · 2023 71% — 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
40% of STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
72% of STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 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. Of the $31k that is directly attributable, 91% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Government funding STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $30k on record.
- Emergency Transportation$27k
- Medical Services-For-Profits$2k
- Fees And Permits$300
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 STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC?
- STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,979 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($42,449). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $109,979 in grants to STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $42,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAMFORD EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 14 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