Mercy Flights Inc

Analysis

Mercy Flights Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Medford, OR. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1950, 76 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, Mercy Flights Inc reported income of $30.2m and spending of $34.6m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $20.1m to $30.2m (+50%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 28%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Mercy Flights Inc sits at the 91st percentile: it is larger than about 91% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 98th percentile, and in the 99th percentile within OR. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Betty Jean Kerr Peoples Health Centers Inc ($30.2m), New Horizon Family Health Services Inc ($30.2m) and St Benedict Health Center ($30.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 3.2% and program service revenue 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $970k (2.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $12.2m. At year end it held assets of $33.3m against liabilities of $10.1m, net assets of $23.3m. It reported 241 employees.