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LAKES REGION EMS INC

EIN 23-7146628 NORTH BRANCH, MN

Revenue 2025
$11,969,464
Expenses 2025
$10,230,209

Program services were 80.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E62Z
Classification
1000
Street
40245 FLETCHER AVE

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO LEASE, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE AN EMERGENCY RESCUE AND AMBULANCE SERVICE WHICH WILL SERVE THE CHISAGO LAKES, MN AREA TO RENDER AID TO THE SICK, INJURED OR DISABLED WITHOUT REGARD TO RACE, CREED, OR TO STATION IN LIFE. TO SERVE THE SOCIAL WELFARE OF PEOPLE OF THE AREA.

Activities or mission (Part I)

NOT-FOR-PROFIT AMBULANCE SERVICE, SERVICING CHISAGO AND PARTS OF ISANTI/PINE COUNTIES IN MN.

  • THE AMBULANCE SERVICE, STAFFED BY TRAINED PERSONNEL, PROVIDES AMBULANCE SERVICE FOR THE COMMUNITIES OF CHISAGO LAKES, RUSH CITY, AND NORTH BRANCH, MINNESOTA, AS WELL AS A PART OF POLK COUNTY IN WISCONSIN.

    Expenses $8,166,784 · Revenue $11,715,065

  • PROVIDING EMS EDUCATION AND TRAINING SERVICES FOR CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDIC, EMT, AND EMR GROUPS.

    Expenses $56,303

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Keith Carlson

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Mike Carroll

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Dan Meyer

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Bryan Gaffy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Josh Howell

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Brandon Thyen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related
  • Aarron Reinert

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $292,294
    From this org
    $284,836
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $7,458
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $212,767
    Bonus
    $72,069
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $7,458
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $292,294
  • Michelle Anderson

    DIRECTOR OF ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $218,292
    From this org
    $190,698
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $27,594
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $151,155
    Bonus
    $39,543
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,772
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,822
    Filer's total
    $218,292
  • Ben Wasmund

    DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $265,734
    From this org
    $230,193
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,541
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $184,436
    Bonus
    $45,757
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $9,193
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,348
    Filer's total
    $265,734
  • Tenamarie Meyer

    CLINICAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $160,152
    From this org
    $154,194
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,958
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $130,843
    Bonus
    $23,351
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,958
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $160,152
  • Lee Huber

    OPERATIONS MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $193,515
    From this org
    $160,749
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,766
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $135,245
    Bonus
    $25,504
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $6,418
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,348
    Filer's total
    $193,515
  • Kirk Winkelman

    CRITICAL CARE PARAMEDIC

    Total calculated
    $136,469
    From this org
    $131,010
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,459
    Hours/week
    40
  • Brandon Trauba

    OPERATION MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $135,232
    From this org
    $129,929
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,303
    Hours/week
    40

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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — 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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $11,969,464
    Expenses
    $10,230,209
    Contributions
    $0
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $9,637,283
    Expenses
    $8,558,998
    Contributions
    $361,557
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $9,194,965
    Expenses
    $8,685,839
    Contributions
    $441,154
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,777,002
    Expenses
    $8,717,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,463,082
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,649,274
    Expenses
    $6,818,619
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,928,225
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,632,768
    Expenses
    $6,355,284
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,459,153
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,248,259
    Expenses
    $5,830,700
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,885,737
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,546,825
    Expenses
    $5,420,541
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,789,985
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,684,557
    Expenses
    $5,396,408
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,978,173
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,292,562
    Expenses
    $4,759,724
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,208,781
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,539,855
    Expenses
    $4,456,158
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,951,264
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,727,501
    Expenses
    $3,927,060
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,632,495
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $3,383,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,935,358

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

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 2025 return

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 13 October 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.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 29 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.