LifeStar
Legal name: Lifestar Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 161614081
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2022–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Williamsville, NY, USA
- Phone
- 716-713-2599
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Transportation Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,416
- Expenses
- $767
- Assets
- $85,089
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOSEPH M PROBST (PRESIDENT/SE)
People named in this filing
- JOSEPH M PROBST (PRESIDENT/SE)
- WILLIAM PAULOT (VICE-PRESIDE)
- VICTOR MILLER (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
LifeStar is a non-profit medical air transportation service dedicated to providing compassionate, urgent air travel for patients with serious medical needs, enabling them to access specialized health care that might otherwise be unaffordable or logistically impossible.
What it reported doing in 2025
Preparation for transportation of ambulatory patients and their families to distant hospitals and clinics able to provide the care required for patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Investment-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from recurring investment income.
- 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of total spending goes to programs. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.6%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 91.9%; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 110.94; rating input score 99; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 35.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $767 in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.