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Angel Flight West Inc

Founded in 1983, angel flight west (afw) arranges free air transportation in response to health care and other compelling human needs.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$41kEnvironment$10kInternational$9kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$5k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $9,775, the rows itemized in this filing. The $6,955,990 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,946,215 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$9,775
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES$9,775
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CAMP LAUREL FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $10k → 7%LIFELINE PILOTS: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Air Charity Network

the organization's mission through its members, it to provide access for people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community or national crisis.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
Angel Flight East

The mission of angel flight east is to provide free air transportation to qualified patients and their families by arranging flights to distant medical facilities, delivering supplies to disaster areas, and reuniting families during…

Recreation & Sports
3
Compassion Airlift Llc

Free medical related air transportation to individuals qualified through the Angel Flight organizations, Patient Airlift Services (PALs) or Lifeline Pilots organizations.

Health
4
Aeroangel Inc

Since 2010, aeroangel has provided free private jet flights primarily for seriously ill children needing travel to and from distant, life-saving medical care. aeroangel is a unique, national aviation charity that uses only private jets…

Health
5
Pilots for Patients

To assist those in need of air transportation for medical purposes.

Human Services
6
Wings of Hope

To save and change lives through the power of aviation. throughout its 60-year history, wings of hope has provided lifesaving care and access to resources in more than 50 countries. the organization was nominated twice for the nobel peace…

International
7
Mission Flight

Our mission is to fly medical patients to critically needed appointments within California as well as to fly volunteer teams into remote, impoverished areas of Mexico. Our passion is to connect people who are isolated and in poverty with…

International
8
Airlink Inc

Airlink is a nonprofit organization working with aviation and logistics partners to transport relief workers and emergency supplies for reputable non-governmental organizations (ngos) responding to rapid-onset disasters and other…

International
9
Angel Flight Soars Inc

Coordinate free air transportation for medically ill patients and care providers as required.

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10
Flyhalo Inc

The organization is dedicated to helping humanity get to a better place. we focus on providing humanitarian aid that ranges from transportation support for our partner organizations, to providing funds for programs that directly support…

Philanthropy
11
Veterans Airlift Command

Organization provides cost free transportation for wounded veterans and their families from their homes to the various medical facilities around the country, primarily using aircraft.

Human Services
12
Samaritan Air Inc

Emergency air transport

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Patient Airlift Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is Project Orbis International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $9,775 · Human ServicesPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INCLIFELINE INC: $6,254 · Human ServicesLIFELINE INCCamp Laurel Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesCamp Laurel FoundationANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 · HealthANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGL…ALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUN…Air Care Alliance: $10,000 · OtherAir Care Allianc…LIGHTHAWK: $9,665 · EnvironmentLIGHTHAWKPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,094 · InternationalPROJECT ORBIS …WINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $5,888 · Public Safety & DisasterWINGS FLI…
Human Services$21,029Health$15,000Other$10,000Environment$9,665International$9,094Public Safety & Disaster$5,888

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAir Care Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $9,775 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,094 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FLIGHTS OF HOPE: $5,888 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCamp Laurel Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALISA ANN RUCH BURN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Angel Flight West Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angel Flight West Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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