Maine · Nonprofit
LifeFlight Foundation
LifeFlight Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,608,533 to it, the largest being FAGUS FOUNDATION ($1,525,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 112
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What LifeFlight Foundation does
Mission
The LifeFlight Foundation (LFF) is an independent nonprofit organization governed by a Board comprised of business, community, and medical leaders from across Maine. The Foundation secures resources for Maine's major air medical and critical care transport needs including: infrastructure such as hospital helipads, airport runways and fueling systems, aviation weather systems, instrument flight systems, communication systems; the capital acquisition of specialized medical equipment and technology; the capital acquisition of medical aircraft and ground vehicles; and the provision of continuing medical education for hospital and EMS personnel throughout Maine.Additionally, the Foundation is responsible for raising statewide awareness about LifeFlight of Maine and the Foundation, which it accomplishes through a comprehensive media and communication strategy and strategic partnerships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In FY2025 (July 2024-June 2025), the Foundation raised more than $3.3 million dollars to support the capital needs of LifeFlight of Maine. In that time period, the Foundation transferred $2.2 million to LifeFlight to meet those needs. Purchases included: a fixed wing avionics package, support for the Critical Care Academy, new and upgraded medical equipment, crew uniforms and equipment and salary support for the Access and Elevate (mental health & wellness) Coordinator positions.
$2,371,513 spentof which $2,225,730 as grants$925,684 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe LifeFlight Foundation is responsible for the planning and execution of all marketing and communication efforts for both the Foundation and LifeFlight of Maine. This includes a multi-faceted outreach strategy to a range of constituents, including donors, partners, and patients from across Maine. The Foundation produces several print pieces, negotiates advertising and partnership arrangements, oversees all social media, and is in the process of completing a comprehensive crisis communications plan.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,371,513.
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 2021 to 2022, from $6.3M to $11M (+69%).
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: 2017 3% · 2018 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
74% of LifeFlight Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Kathleen O'Halloran
Executive Director
Board chair
Zachary Brandwein
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 45 funders, grant income rose $288k → $767k.
15 of 112 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $147k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money LifeFlight Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of LifeFlight Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 112 funders by total. 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
LifeFlight Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
34% 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 LifeFlight Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 18% · 2019 21% · 2020 47% · 2021 29% · 2022 38% · 2023 22% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of LifeFlight Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
LifeFlight Foundation draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Maine, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
LifeFlight Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LifeFlight Foundation
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 Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
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 LifeFlight Foundation: 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 LifeFlight Foundation?
- LifeFlight Foundation (Maine) receives grants from 112 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,608,533 to it, the largest being FAGUS FOUNDATION ($1,525,000). 76 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LifeFlight Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 112 organizations giving $8,608,533 in grants to LifeFlight Foundation, 76 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LifeFlight Foundation?
- FAGUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,525,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LifeFlight Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 112 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