Lifeflight Eagle

Analysis

Lifeflight Eagle is a registered charity in United States, based in Kansas City, MO. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lifeflight Eagle reported income of $21.0m and spending of $18.3m, spending 87% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $19.9m to $21.0m (+5.5%), an average of +1.3% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 17%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lifeflight Eagle sits at the 89th percentile: it is larger than about 89% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 96th percentile within MO. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Episcopal Church Home ($21.0m), Cowlitz Family Health Center ($21.0m) and North Olympic Healthcare Network ($21.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.3% and program service revenue 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $4.0m. At year end it held assets of $25.6m against liabilities of $6.9m, net assets of $18.7m. It reported 61 employees.