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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
10/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 spent
    76% of program spending
  2. Legacy 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 spent
    11% of program spending
  3. Tragedy 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 spent
    3% of program spending
  4. Transition 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 spent
    10% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $436,606.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($120k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($38k)2018 Revenue 216 ($259k) Expenses 162 ($159k) Net assets 361 ($136k)2019 Revenue 109 ($130k) Expenses 142 ($139k) Net assets 337 ($127k)2020 Revenue 101 ($121k) Expenses 117 ($114k) Net assets 353 ($133k)2021 Revenue 194 ($233k) Expenses 194 ($190k) Net assets 464 ($175k)2022 Revenue 358 ($429k) Expenses 216 ($212k) Net assets 1038 ($391k)2023 Revenue 380 ($455k) Expenses 374 ($367k) Net assets 1273 ($480k)2024 Revenue 412 ($494k) Expenses 352 ($345k) Net assets 1670 ($629k)2025 Revenue 314 ($376k) Expenses 499 ($490k) Net assets 1370 ($516k)
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Revenue (314)Expenses (499)Net assets (1370)Peer revenue range

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%).

$38k
$136k
$127k
$133k
$175k
$391k
$480k
$629k
$516k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of PARARESCUE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’17
$100k
’18
−$9k
’19
$6k
’20
$42k
’21
$217k
’22
$88k
’23
$148k
’24
−$114k
’25
12
months of
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.

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Listed66677777
Joined·+0+0+1+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

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.

24%
largest funder
52%
top three
~8
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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.

NH
ID
OR
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Michigan out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

PARARESCUE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like PARARESCUE FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 6%Fundraising 5%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

NH
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
FL

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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