Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC
WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $25k
- Net assets
- $4.3M
What West Shore Advanced Life Support Services Inc does
Mission
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, and community service.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
West shore advanced life support services, inc. (wsals, d/b/a geisinger ems (gems)) strives: - to be the leader in excellence in the provision of pre-hospital emergency services throughout northeast and central pennsylvania. - to maintain the public trust through the delivery of compassionate, courteous, and professional treatment of those placed in our care. - to enhance and maintain the image of pre-hospital emergency services as an important link in the chain of health care utilizing the most up-to-date technology and therapies available. - to assist others in their technology and therapies available. - to assist others in their education in pre-hospital care through observation and participation in the performance of our duties. - to maintain a workplace where thoughts and ideas are nurtured, where performance and rewards are equitable, and where social and self-actualization needs are fulfilled. To achieve these goals, wsals commits to continuously improve the quality of care and services, creatively responding to the needs of the people served. Wsals provides primary emergency basic life support (bls) ambulance service, primary emergency advanced life support paramedic…
$15,778,373 spent$14,250,158 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,778,373.
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 2023 to 2024, from $4.3M to $8.2M (+92%).
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 2% · 2021 6% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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
Paul N Christophel
Executive director, ground ems
Board chair
Jeffrey A Jacobson
Chair, director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Geisinger Health). These are real filings, and they are not money WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT 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.
Where its funders are
100% of WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania 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
WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 79 related entities
- Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · exempt
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · exempt
- Kaiser Fdn Health Plan of Colorado · exempt
- Kaiser Fdn Health Plan of Georgia Inc · exempt
- Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mas · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC?
- WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $25,000 to it, the largest being PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $25,000 in grants to WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC.
- Who is the largest funder of WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC?
- PARTNERSHIP FOR BETTER HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WEST SHORE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES INC 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 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