Florida · Nonprofit
Vital Flight Inc
Vital Flight Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,898 to it, the largest being QUANTUM FOUNDATION INC ($58,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $105k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $32k
What Vital Flight Inc does
Mission
Provide access for people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community and national crisis. We serve patients in florida, the islands of the bahamas and southern georgia.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Vital Flight, Inc. is a non-profit volunteer pilot organization involved in public benefit flying, coordinating free transportation by private aircraft (or donated commercial tickets) to distant medical facilities when commercial service is not available, impractical, or simply not affordable. Additionally, experiences are arranged for special needs children and their families as a respite to their daily struggles. In 2023, a total of 142 missions were flown, and 176 coordinated. Program services costs included those for mission operations, public education, and chapter development. Mission operational costs included 52178 of in-kind donated pilot services, flight costs, and donated commercial airline tickets.
$159,110 spent$160,210 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $159,110.
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 2019 to 2020, from $36k to $66k (+83%).
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.
100% of Vital Flight Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
David Knies
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $18k → $12k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Vital Flight 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
Vital Flight Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 60% · 2020 57% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of Vital Flight Inc's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398 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
Vital Flight Inc's revenue fell 51% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Vital Flight 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vital Flight 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 Vital Flight Inc?
- Vital Flight Inc (Florida) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,898 to it, the largest being QUANTUM FOUNDATION INC ($58,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vital Flight Inc have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $108,898 in grants to Vital Flight Inc, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vital Flight Inc?
- QUANTUM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $58,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vital Flight Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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