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SAMARITAN AVIATION

EIN 84-1543484 MESA, AZ

Revenue 2025
$4,325,073
Expenses 2025
$3,743,200

Program services were 82.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E60
Classification
1000
Street
4710 E FALCON DR

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 · 2025

Mission

SAMARITAN AVIATION PROVIDES CRITICAL AVIATION SERVICES THAT INCLUDE LIFE FLIGHTS, MEDICAL SUPPLY DELIVERY, AND DISASTER RELIEF OPERATIONS IN REMOTE REGIONS OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO LEADS COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVES AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS TO STRENGTHEN LOCAL CAPACITY. IN ADDITION, OCCASIONAL MERCY FLIGHTS ARE OFFERED IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES FOR PATIENTS WHO ARE UNABLE TO TRAVEL BY ROAD OR COMMERCIAL AIRLINE DUE TO MEDICAL CONDITIONS.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO PROVIDE LIFE FLIGHTS, MEDICAL SUPPLY, AND DISASTER RELIEF IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA.

  • SAMARITAN AVIATION CONTINUES TO SERVE THE REMOTE AREAS IN THE EAST SEPIK AND GULF PROVINCES OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA (PNG). IN 2025, SAMARITAN AVIATION FLEW 577 MISSIONS, PROVIDING EMERGENCY EVACUATION FLIGHTS FOR 264 PATIENTS. WE PARTNERED WITH THE PROVINCIAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES TO DELIVER 10,166 POUNDS OF MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO AID POSTS IN THE AREA.

    Expenses $3,100,330

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Steven Mark Palm

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $152,119
    From this org
    $118,261
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,858
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $118,261
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $5,342
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,516
    Filer's total
    $152,119

  • Brian Broyles

    CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $131,971
    From this org
    $78,721
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $53,250
    Hours/week
    40 + 1 related

  • Luke Hamer

    PILOT

    Total calculated
    $150,792
    From this org
    $119,273
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $31,519
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $119,273
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $3,003
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,516
    Filer's total
    $150,792

  • Matthew Condon

    PILOT

    Total calculated
    $119,774
    From this org
    $116,771
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,003
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nicholas Mosca

    PILOT

    Total calculated
    $115,048
    From this org
    $112,045
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,003
    Hours/week
    40

  • Anton Yudzitski

    PILOT

    Total calculated
    $106,185
    From this org
    $103,182
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,003
    Hours/week
    40

  • Dr Dan Cranston

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Schwitters

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Quentin Blackford

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Joey Burns

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Daniel Jones

    DIRECTOR (LEFT 1/20/25)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jason Kendall

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Rex Sheridan

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $4,325,073
    Expenses
    $3,743,200
    Contributions
    $4,264,781
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,312,428
    Expenses
    $3,296,837
    Contributions
    $3,176,729
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $4,048,225
    Expenses
    $3,098,892
    Contributions
    $4,026,969
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,868,955
    Expenses
    $2,688,579
    Contributions
    $3,856,531
    Grants paid
    $6,921

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
    $2,424,104
    Expenses
    $1,789,656
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,264,181

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,393,087
    Expenses
    $1,515,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,636,919

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,883,661
    Expenses
    $1,653,464
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,720,627

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,394,350
    Expenses
    $1,373,808
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,526,478

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,330,205
    Expenses
    $1,172,385
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,426,579

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,528,876
    Expenses
    $1,335,933
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,288,087

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,546,153
    Expenses
    $1,122,582
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,023,416

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $884,045
    Expenses
    $821,499
    Assets (EOY)
    $630,568

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $705,031
    Expenses
    $546,924
    Assets (EOY)
    $615,660

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $684,078
    Assets (EOY)
    $503,945

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2025 return

  • SAMARITAN AVIATION LIMITED

    501(C)(3) · MEDICAL MISSIONS · AS

Declared as related by

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.