Pilots for Patients

Analysis

Pilots for Patients is a registered charity in United States, based in Monroe, LA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2008, 18 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Pilots for Patients reported income of $493k and spending of $423k, spending 86% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $431k to $493k (+14%), an average of +3.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 58%. Over the whole period it spent 58% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Pilots for Patients sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within LA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Friends of Estacada Community Center Inc ($493k), Friendly Harbor ($493k) and Concerned Citizens Child-Care Inc ($493k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 92% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $101k. At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $5,566, net assets of $1.2m. It reported 2 employees.