Grace on Wings
Legal name: Grace on Wings Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205512973
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Indianapolis, IN, US
- Phone
- (877) 75-GRACE (7223)
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Interfaith Coalitions
- Affiliation
- Interfaith
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $506,757
- Expenses
- $547,073
- Assets
- $195,125
- Liabilities
- $352,769
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- HAL BLANK (PRESIDENT)
- ROGER BOOTH CPA (VICE PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- HAL BLANK (PRESIDENT)
- ROGER BOOTH CPA (VICE PRESIDENT)
- LONNIE RICHARDSON (SPIRITUAL ADVISOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Grace on Wings provides charity air ambulance transport for patients who need important medical treatment, where commercial air ambulance costs are often not covered by insurance, operating across the United States. Reports Every mission report that will detail Nellie or Abe’s Departure and Arrival points, details about the families’ served, and how God is working in this Ministry. We ask for your prayers for the flight crew, medical staff, patients and families. Reports OUR Mission Reports Every mission report that will detail Nellie or Abe’s Departure and Arrival points, details about the families’ served, and how God is working in this Ministry. Every mission report that will detail Nellie or Abe’s Departure and Arrival points, details about the families’ served, and how God is working in this Ministry.
What it reported doing in 2025
Air ambulance services. Gow provides medical missions services to patients in need of basic and advanced life support services that need transport. Patients are unable to fly commercially. Our plane is equipted with med monitoring equipment including a medical cot system connected to the planes electrical system. Our services are provided at reduced cost compared to commercial for-profit companies. Gow estimates it saves its patients about 1m each year. The core of gows service is faith based. We show christs love through aviation.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.36; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.81; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -16.7% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -21.5% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -26% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $547K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 22 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.