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TRI-STATE REGIONAL AMBULANCE INC

EIN 39-1962965 LA CROSSE, WI

Revenue 2024
$5,810,952
Expenses 2024
$6,257,066

Program services were 92.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E62
Classification
1000
Street
235 CAUSEWAY BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • BRYAN ERDMANN

    BOD, TREASURER, SECRETARY, COO

    Total calculated
    $519,860
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $443,670
    Other
    $76,190
    Hours/week
    2 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $443,062 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $608 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $48,300 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,890 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $519,860 related

  • MICHAEL MCKEE

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS, PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $361,652
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $290,401
    Other
    $71,251
    Hours/week
    2 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $289,289 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $1,112 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $41,410 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $29,841 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $361,652 related

  • MIKEL POELLINGER

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS, VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • CHRISTOPHER EBERLEIN MD

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $497,005
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $422,038
    Other
    $74,967
    Hours/week
    2 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $417,239 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $4,799 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $48,300 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,667 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $497,005 related

  • KIM SMITH

    BOARD OF DIRECTORS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 2 related

  • THERESE BINFET

    BOD, CLINICAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $233,828
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $184,133
    Other
    $49,695
    Hours/week
    2 + 48 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $181,921 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $2,212 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $26,028 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $23,667 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $233,828 related

  • JOHN CEELEN

    CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $782,368
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $728,316
    Other
    $54,052
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $598,104 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $129,468 related
    Other
    $0 + $744 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $29,147 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,905 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $782,368 related

  • SCOTT RATHGABER MD

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $1,397,550
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $1,324,275
    Other
    $73,275
    Hours/week
    1 + 49 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,278,368 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $45,907 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $48,300 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,975 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $1,397,550 related

  • THOMAS TORNSTROM

    CLINICAL OPERATIONS DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $226,541
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $181,916
    Other
    $44,625
    Hours/week
    24 + 26 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $173,251 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0 + $8,665 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $25,578 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $19,047 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $226,541 related

  • STEVE LITTLE

    FORMER CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $209,856
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $209,856
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $209,856 related
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $0 + $209,856 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $5,810,952
    Expenses
    $6,257,066
    Contributions
    $355,672
    Grants paid
    $24,009
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,957,038
    Expenses
    $6,292,613
    Contributions
    $108,483
    Grants paid
    $40,479
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,028,116
    Expenses
    $3,782,551
    Contributions
    $113,392
    Grants paid
    $15,545
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,695,967
    Expenses
    $3,749,120
    Contributions
    $88,147
    Grants paid
    $4,919

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

The first 25 as filed. The return lists every one.

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 10 September 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.