Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad Inc.
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad Inc.
Charlottesvle VA | IRS ruling year: 1961 | EIN: 54-0784350
Organization Mission
RESCUE, EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE, AND TRANSPORTATION
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Charlottesvle VA | IRS ruling year: 1961 | EIN: 54-0784350
Organization Mission
RESCUE, EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE, AND TRANSPORTATION
Needs Improvement
This charity's score is 72%, earning it a Two-Star rating.
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Score
Most Recent Fiscal Year:
FY 2022
This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
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Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. We check to see that a majority of board members are identified as independent on their tax form.
Source: IRS Form 990
Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. For most organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least three independent board members. For large, donor-funded organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least five independent board members
Source: IRS Form 990
An Audit, Review, or Compilation provides important information about financial accountability and accuracy. Organizations are scored based on their Total Revenue Amount:
Total Revenue Amount | Expectation to Receive Credit |
$2 million or higher and 40% or higher donor support | Expected to complete an audit and have an audit oversight committee |
$1 million or higher | Expected to complete an audit |
$500,000 - $1 million | Expected to complete an audit, review, or compilation |
Less than $500,000 | No expectation (removed from scoring methodology) |
Source: IRS Form 990
A diversion of assets — any unauthorized conversion or use of the organization's assets other than for the organization's authorized purposes, including but not limited to embezzlement or theft — also can seriously call into question a charity's financial integrity. We review the charity's most recent IRS Form 990 to see if the charity has reported any diversion of assets.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the IRS Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
For almost all charities, we check the charity's IRS Form 990 to see if it discloses that the Form 990 is available on the charity's website. As with the audited financial statement, donors need easy access to this financial report to help determine if the organization is managing its financial resources well.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent IRS Form 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization's solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
Source: IRS Form 990
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three IRS Forms 990). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
Source: IRS Form 990
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Sherri Frantz, Executive Di
$95,850
Michael Berg, Director
Compensation not entered
Harrison Brookeman, Director
Compensation not entered
Kerry Bush, Secretary
Compensation not entered
Jen Fleisher, Director
Compensation not entered
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2022
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Foundation Status:
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad Inc.) or EIN (540784350) in the 'Search Term' field.
Not Currently Scored
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
Not Currently Scored
Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
Score
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
RESCUE, EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE, AND TRANSPORTATION
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
We envision CARS as a strong leader and partner in innovative, cost-effective medical and rescue ope
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Develop a recruitment and retention plan to focus on drawing membership from all areas of our community and developing a life-long relationship with CARS.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: Ensure appropriate infrastructure to support the Mission.
Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).
Goal Three: Invest in systemic administrative and leadership support to enable sustainable development and retention of leaders and succession planning.
Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Describe an investment in leadership
We have connected with the Center for Non-profit Excellence (CNE) and have sent various members of our Board as well as our Executive Director to trainings with CNE. Those participants brought information and new ideas back to the rest of our Board.
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Raising Awareness
Community Building
What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?
We coordinate with our local public jurisdictions, both the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. We teach community classes such as CPR and Stop the Bleed. We are present at local stand-by events (events with a significant number of people where the organizers would like an ambulance on stand-by) and come to various community events (such as local school Touch-A-Truck events). We have helped create various groups to coordinate care for people who frequently call 911 to assist in longer-term planning for them.
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
The COVID-19 pandemic directly affected us. In consultation with our public sector partners, the Charlottesville Fire Department and Albemarle County Fire Rescue, we connected with subject matter experts, some of whom were our members, to change how we wore our personal protective equipment (PPE) and how we would treat our patients so that our care of patients was not affected but we were able to keep our members safe. We transitioned to using cleanable, reusable PPE early on, allowing us to avoid the PPE shortages that were so much in the news. Overall, we worked to ensure our and our patients' safety while still providing high-quality care.
Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability
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