Samaritan Aviation

Analysis

Samaritan Aviation is a registered charity in United States, based in Mesa, AZ. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2000, 26 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 (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, Samaritan Aviation reported income of $4.0m and spending of $3.1m, leaving 23% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.9m to $4.0m (+115%), an average of +21% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 74%. Over the whole period it spent 79% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Samaritan Aviation sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 91st percentile, and in the 89th percentile within AZ. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Fayette County Drug & Alcohol Commission ($4.0m), Henry County Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc ($4.0m) and Beacon Health Foundation Inc ($4.0m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $277k (8.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $1.2m. At year end it held assets of $5.4m against liabilities of $94k, net assets of $5.3m. It reported 14 employees.