Minnesota · Nonprofit
CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC
CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,750 to it, the largest being BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $66M
What Critical Care Services Inc does
Mission
The mission of life link iii is safe and effective air medical transport. We accomplish this by setting, holding, and enhancing the standard for excellence in patient care, transportation, and industry leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Rotor wing servicesprovides air transportation of patients requiring critical care and emergency medical care in helicopters configured for mobile intensive care with 3,541 transports in 2025. Life link iii provides helicopter air medical transportation including on-scene emergency response and inter-facility transport 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. With helicopter bases throughout minnesota and wisconsin, life link iii transports all types of critically ill or injured patients.
$53,980,758 spent$70,018,499 earned by the program91% of program spendingFixed wing servicesprovides air transportation of patients requiring critical care and emergency medical care in fixed wing aircraft configured for mobile intensive care with 280 transports in 2025. Life link iii provides airplane ambulance transportation throughout the united states, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Life link iii has a dedicated, medically-configured airplane ready at all times to transport all types of critically ill or injured patients.
$5,311,663 spent$6,134,961 earned by the program9% of program spendingCommunity education and safetylife link iii's airplane and helicopter transportation services are accredited by the commission on accreditation of medical transport systems (camts), which reflects the organization's commitment to meeting or exceeding the highest standards of patient care, quality and safety. Life link iii is one of only 60 medical transportation services nationally and internationally that are camts accredited for the two modes of critical care air medical transportation: rotor wing and fixed wing. Life link iii successfully completed the reaccreditation process in march 2025 that extended accreditation through march 2028.life link iii provides outreach education and training to pre-hospital and hospital-based healthcare providers covering such topics as helicopter landing zone set up, scene safety, patient transport preparation and other patient care topics. Life link iii actively participates with the communities it serves, including public, informational, school, injury prevention and community events. In 2025 the organization donated clinician, pilot, and aircraft time for 354 separate community and healthcare-related events and trainings with more than 33,000…
$0 spent0% of program spendingFinancial assistancelife link iii maintains a financial assistance program called community care. This program provides care for those who are uninsured or unable to afford the cost of services. We maintain records to identify and monitor the level of community care under this program. Applicants for our community care program are requested to provide current year income information. We use income-based criteria in our determination of community care and use 300% of the federal poverty guidelines established by the u.s. Department of health and human services in determining eligibility. In 2025 the cost of providing care to patients under this program was $1,895,596. Life link iii participates in government programs and is committed to serving all persons in need regardless of race, creed, sex, nationality, religion, disability, age or ability to pay. To promote access to all individuals, life link iii participates in the following public healthcare programs: medicare, medicaid (primarily minnesota and wisconsin), minnesotacare, badgercare, and other general assistance programs. Payments from these programs frequently do not cover the costs life link iii incurs to serve program…
Patient receivables and credit policypatient accounts receivable are uncollateralized patient obligations that are stated at the amount management expects to collect from outstanding balances. These obligations are primarily from local residents, most of whom are insured under third-party payors on the patients' behalf. Or, if the patient is uninsured, the patient receives an automatic discount equal to the discount given the organizations largest third party payer, then that patient is billed directly. Once claims are settled with the primary payer, any secondary insurance is billed and patients are billed for copay and deductible amounts that are patients' responsibility. Payments on patient accounts receivable are applied to the specific claim identified on the remittance advice or statement. Life link iii does not have a policy to charge interest on past due accounts. Patient accounts receivable are reduced by an allowance for doubtful accounts. In evaluating the collectability of patient accounts receivable, the organization analyzes its collection history and identifies trends for each of its major payor sources of revenue to estimate the appropriate allowance for doubtful…
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $59,292,421.
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 $75M to $91M (+21%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 5% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Joshua M Howell
President and CEO
Board chair
Kelly Spratt
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 CRITICAL CARE SERVICES 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
CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CRITICAL CARE SERVICES 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CRITICAL CARE SERVICES 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 CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC?
- CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $67,750 to it, the largest being BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION ($25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $67,750 in grants to CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC?
- BA & ESTHER GREENHECK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRITICAL CARE SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing