Minnesota · Nonprofit
Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc
Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being CELANESE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $500
- Net assets
- $96k
What Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc does
Mission
To provide advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Winona Area Ambulance Service will provide excellence in patient care & education and commit to continuously improving the quality of the services we provide. WAAS provides advanced emergency medical services and transportation to the community through excellent patient care, education, and collaborative partnerships.WAAS is committed to our community by providing the highest level of clinical care and putting patient safety and quality first. It means treating our patients, their families, first responders, other medical providers, co-workers and all others that we come into contact with, with respect, compassion, and dignity. We believe that our core values (Continued on Schedule O)accurately communicate the things that drive us as an organization. As employees of Winona Area Ambulance Service, Inc. we are expected to live the values and embrace the spirit of our behavioral standards, holding each other professionally accountable.
$2,003,964 spent$2,668,936 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,003,964.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $1.9M to $1.7M (−13%).
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 3% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Rachelle Heising-Schultz
President/CEO/Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Winona Area Ambulance Service 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
Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
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
Winona Area Ambulance Service 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
Organizations like Winona Area Ambulance Service 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Winona Health Services · exempt
- Winona Health Foundation · exempt
- Winona Senior Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Winona Area Ambulance Service 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 Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc?
- Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $500 to it, the largest being CELANESE FOUNDATION ($500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $500 in grants to Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc?
- CELANESE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Winona Area Ambulance Service Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), 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