Colorado · Nonprofit
AEROANGEL INC
AEROANGEL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,985 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND ($265,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $466k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $675k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Aeroangel Inc does
Mission
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 flown by a crew of volunteer professional pilots to provide air transportation when no other safe option exists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Flight donation program: aeroangel provides free private jet flights to seriously ill children who have no safe option to travel to and from distant, lifesaving medical care throughout the united states (with some flights to and from canada). Aeroangel flights are reserved for children (and some young adults with longterm health problems) who cannot safely travel on a commercial airline flight or drive, and who do not need an air ambulance flight. During the past fiscal year, aeroangel completed approximately 75 flights with an approximate public benefit value of $2.4 million. Aeroangel maintains an emergency flight fund which is used to purchase charter flights when a donated flight cannot be obtained. Given the growing need for flights, aeroangel is working to build its unique flight donation program to serve more of the over 250 children's hospitals across the country. Aeroangel's goal is to fill 100% of critical flight requests and ensure every child needing a flight is accommoated.
$392,877 spentof which $133 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $392,877.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.2M to $177k (−85%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
88% of AEROANGEL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Mark Pestal
Chairman/volunteer ed
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $16k → $71k.
6 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AEROANGEL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AEROANGEL INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 100% · 2019 69% · 2020 100% · 2021 37% · 2022 53% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
29% of AEROANGEL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
AEROANGEL INC draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AEROANGEL INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AEROANGEL INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AEROANGEL INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AEROANGEL INC?
- AEROANGEL INC (Colorado) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $674,985 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND ($265,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AEROANGEL INC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $674,985 in grants to AEROANGEL INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AEROANGEL INC?
- GEORGE AND CINDY RUSU FAMILY FOUND is the largest funder on record, with $265,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AEROANGEL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing