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WINGS OF HOPE INCORPORATED

EIN 43-0909606 CHESTERFIELD, MO

Largest nonprofits in Missouri

Revenue 2024
$3,436,997
Expenses 2024
$3,254,281

Program services were 81.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
Q193
Classification
1200
Street
18370 WINGS OF HOPE BLVD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO SAVE AND CHANGE LIVES THROUGH THE POWER OF AVIATION. THROUGHOUT ITS 60-YEAR HISTORY, WINGS OF HOPE HAS PROVIDED LIFESAVING CARE AND ACCESS TO RESOURCES IN MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES. THE ORGANIZATION WAS NOMINATED TWICE FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE IN RECOGNITION OF ITS WORK.

  • MEDICAL AIR TRANSPORT: Wings of Hope provides medical air transport services, free of charge, to patients and their families seeking specialized healthcare not available to them locally. Volunteer pilots and medics fly patients and their caregivers to hospitals and treatment centers in twenty-nine states within 800-mile radius of the St. Louis-based headquarters. In 2024, Wings of Hope conducted 114 flights to accommodate patients and their caregivers.

    Expenses $2,372,416

  • GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN NETWORK: Wings of Hope partners with local and national nongovernmental organizations partner in nine countries to build sustainable air service programs with community-focused development solutions. Globally, a total more than 60,000 individuals were served through access to resources to live healthy and dignified lives.

    Expenses $157,391

  • SOAR INTO STEM: Wings of Hope encourages the next generation of humanitarians and aviation professionals by offering two four-week, dynamic hands-on learning experience to high school students. Students get a front-row seat to explore aviation and STEM-related career paths throughout the program as they explore principles of flight, aircraft maintenance, aviation engineering, and Unmanned Aerial Systems also known as drones.

    Expenses $120,151 · Revenue $2,100

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Amy Buehler

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $155,554
    From this org
    $155,554
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $155,554
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $155,554

  • Steven Johnson

    DIRECTOR OF MAINTENACE

    Total calculated
    $109,889
    From this org
    $109,889
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • David Agee

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Bryan Krueger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Larry Dalton

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kelli Fabick

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Christian Rusteberg

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Shelley Perulfi

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Melissa Owens

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dana Steffey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr Robert Ciesla

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Donald Kukla

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Kate Schneider

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Adam Kruger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Matthew C Temple

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Bowen

    vice Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Elizabeth Vasseur-Browne

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Andrew Kuchan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2.5

  • Gary Kretz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James Rhodes II

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,436,997
    Expenses
    $3,254,281
    Contributions
    $1,862,823
    Grants paid
    $85,485
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $5,747,117
    Expenses
    $3,249,972
    Contributions
    $4,491,855
    Grants paid
    $75,995
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,867,897
    Expenses
    $3,366,617
    Contributions
    $1,423,016
    Grants paid
    $404,645

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,408,153
    Expenses
    $2,897,662
    Assets (EOY)
    $18,280,814

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,379,386
    Expenses
    $4,145,983
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,004,633

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.