Michigan · Nonprofit
PARARESCUE FOUNDATION
PARARESCUE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,358 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($188,230). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $376k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $779k
- Net assets
- $516k
What Pararescue Foundation does
Mission
The Pararescue Foundation is dedicated to supporting u.s. Air force pararescue and combat rescue officer service members, veterans, and their families. We aim to relieve the physical and psychological demands of service, provide tragedy, transition, and education assistance, and honor the commitment and sacrifice of those who live by the motto: "that others may live."
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resilience: physical and pyschological treatment that helps with injury prevention and rehabilitation. The resiliency program provides relief from the physical or invisible wounds borne by service members, veterans and their families.
$332,158 spent76% of program spendingLegacy preservation: for ceremonies and memorials that honor the commitment and sacrifice. Through physical memorials, recognition ceremonies, and recording of historical events, the legacy preservation program seeks to honor those committed to the pararescue code and motto: "these things we do, that others may live."
$48,347 spent11% of program spendingTragedy support: when a community member is killed or severely injured, the tragedy assistance program provides financial and logistical support to the families of service members who are killed or severely injured.
$13,513 spent3% of program spendingTransition assistance: for post military careers, our transition assistance program helps service and family members realize their value in the private sector, lead prosperous lives post-service, and enjoy the freedoms they fought to protect. Gold star family education assistance: the program honors the pararescuemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom and provide for those gone to soon. We know our fallen heroes would want a quality pre-collegiate education for their young children. Our aim is to help the pararescue families whose unmeasurable sacrifice cannot be calculated.
$42,588 spent10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $436,606.
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 $175k to $391k (+124%).
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.
99% of PARARESCUE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $40k → $224k.
9 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 PARARESCUE FOUNDATION’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
PARARESCUE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
71% 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 PARARESCUE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 62% · 2019 65% · 2020 62% · 2021 68% · 2022 46% · 2023 44% — 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
67% of PARARESCUE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
60% of PARARESCUE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $308k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $471k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
PARARESCUE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like PARARESCUE 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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 14 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PARARESCUE 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 PARARESCUE FOUNDATION?
- PARARESCUE FOUNDATION (Michigan) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,358 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($188,230). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PARARESCUE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $779,358 in grants to PARARESCUE FOUNDATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PARARESCUE FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $188,230 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PARARESCUE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 21 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