Nevada · Public charity
Miracle Flights
Miracle Flights is a national charity that provides free commercial airline tickets for u.s. Residents in need of distant medical care not available in their own communities.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2021
- 1
- Itemized grants FY2021
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2021
- $144k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2021
- $144,098
- Largest grant, FY2021
- $144,098
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2021
- 1
- Total assets, FY2021
- $52M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Miracle Flights funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | 1 | $144k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $199k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $71k | 25% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $470k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Pediatrics | $807,333 | 5 | 6% |
| Children's Flight of Hope | $60,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Patient Airlift Services Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Perthes Kids Foundation | $45,000 | 2 | 38% |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Miracle Flights
- How much does Miracle Flights give?
- Miracle Flights reported 1 itemized grants totaling $144,098, out of $1,028,967 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Miracle Flights fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Health (100%), Education (0%).
- Who are Miracle Flights's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: World Pediatrics ($807k), Children's Flight of Hope ($60k), Patient Airlift Services Inc ($60k).
- Does Miracle Flights fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Miracle Flights?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Miracle Flights based?
- Miracle Flights is based in NV.
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