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WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC

WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,470 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($30,470). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$246k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$30k
Net assets
$592k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Western Regional EMS Inc does

Mission

Western regional ems, inc.is organized to operate exclusively for the benefit of emergency medical service institute, a pennsylvania nonprofit corporation which falls within the class organizations described in irc section 501(c)(3).

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Annual update conference - three day educational and informational conference provided to emergency and medical service organizations and personnel in the sixteen county western pennsylvania region and cost of annual meeting of regional emergency medical service organizations. Wrems also provides other ems education intiatives.

    $272,583 spent$241,446 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $272,583.

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 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($155k) Net assets 100 ($285k)2018 Revenue 191 ($305k) Expenses 108 ($167k) Net assets 149 ($423k)2019 Revenue 124 ($198k) Expenses 111 ($172k) Net assets 158 ($449k)2020 Revenue 112 ($179k) Expenses 59 ($92k) Net assets 188 ($536k)2021 Revenue 146 ($233k) Expenses 66 ($102k) Net assets 234 ($667k)2022 Revenue 127 ($203k) Expenses 151 ($234k) Net assets 223 ($635k)2023 Revenue 150 ($240k) Expenses 150 ($232k) Net assets 226 ($643k)2024 Revenue 169 ($270k) Expenses 184 ($286k) Net assets 220 ($627k)2025 Revenue 154 ($246k) Expenses 182 ($282k) Net assets 208 ($592k)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (182)Net assets (208)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 2017 to 2018, from $289k to $428k (+48%).

$289k
$428k
$455k
$542k
$671k
$641k
$649k
$666k
$598k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,485 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
’17
$139k
’18
$26k
’19
$87k
’20
$131k
’21
−$32k
’22
$8k
’23
−$16k
’24
−$36k
’25
25
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

Thomas Mcelree

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1414131213131112
Joined·+0+2+0+1+1+1+2
No longer listed·0310131
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $8k.

Funder
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'23
'24*
'25*
total
Upmc Groupidentity?
$30k
funders
1
1
1
1

Left out of every figure on this page: $432k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Emergency Medical Service Institute). These are real filings, and they are not money WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC raised.

From the IRS filings of WESTERN REGIONAL EMS 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 WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC is better cushioned than half of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−14% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve25.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WESTERN REGIONAL EMS 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 Pennsylvania

Emergency Medical Service Institute86%Seven Mountains Emergency Medical Services Council Inc83%Southern Alleghenies Emergency Medical Services Council Inc82%South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc82%Allegheny County Medical Society81%East Erie County Emergency Medical Services Corporation80%Chalfont Emergency Medical Servicesinc80%Northwest Pa Industrial Resource Center Inc80%

Nationally

Emergency Medical Service Institute86%Seven Mountains Emergency Medical Services Council Inc83%Wethersfield Emergency Medical Services Association Inc83%Southern Alleghenies Emergency Medical Services Council Inc82%South Central Emergency Medical Services Inc82%The National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians82%Washington RegIonal Medical System81%Washington Regional Medical Foundation81%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Emergency Medical Service Institute · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC?
WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,470 to it, the largest being UPMC GROUP ($30,470). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,470 in grants to WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WESTERN REGIONAL EMS INC?
UPMC GROUP is the largest funder on record, with $30,470 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WESTERN REGIONAL EMS 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 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