· Public charity
Air Line Pilots Association International
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to promote the interests of the airline piloting profession and to safeguard the rights, individually and collectively, of its members.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $151,142 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $367,772 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $216,630 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON | $27,600 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL AVIATION CLUB | $13,100 |
| AMERICAN ASSOC OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC | $13,000 |
| ALPA EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC | $10,869 |
| SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| 10PIN BOWLING LOUNGE | $10,000 |
| FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| WOMEN IN AVIATION INT'L | $8,000 |
| AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ASSOCIATION | $7,573 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON AVIATION OPEN | $7,500 |
| CAPITOL HILL CLUB | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB | $7,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $70k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $62k to organizations and $8k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Sponsorship · CONTRIBUTION · GRANT MACEWAN UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIP
Stated purpose: SPONSORSHIP
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- ACAERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +58%
- AAAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $81k · revenue +66%
- GWGreater Washington Aviation Open INC5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TITHE INVISIBLE HIGHWAY LLCone grant, 2019 · $170k
- TLThe LeRoy W Homer Jr Foundationone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +11% · 26% of their budget
- CJCaptain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fundone grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue -33% · 46% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Airlines for america (a4a) vigorously advocates for america's airlines as models of safety, customer service, and environmental responsibility; and as the indispensable network that drives our nation's economy and global…
To advance the art, sport, and science of aviation and space flight by fostering opportunities to participate fully in the aviation activities and by promoting public understanding of the importance of aviation and space flight in the…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to promote the interests of the airline piloting profession and to safeguard the rights, individually and collectively, of its members.
To advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics and to nurture and promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits. the institute encourages original research, fosters dissemination of new…
To encourage and advance the science of aircraft electronics.
To foster an environment that allows business aviation to thrive in the united states and around the world.
To culitvate and advance women leaders in the aviation and aerospace industries through a global network.
See schedule oto promote, advance and encourage aviation and airport safety and security and the research and testing in the support thereof; to educate the public and users of the national air transportation system to the value and…
See schedule oaircraft owners & pilots association (aopa), a not-for-profit individual membership organization, effectively serves the interests and needs of its members and establishes, maintains, and articulates position of leadership to…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
The Independent Pilots Association (IPA) is the collective bargaining agent for the pilots employed by United Parcel Service. The IPA negotiates and submits to its members contracts for ratification and acts in the interest of its members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flight Safety Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ALPA EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds The LeRoy W Homer Jr Foundation ↗
- Who funds Captain Jason Dahl Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 9-11 MEMORIAL GARDEN OF REFLECTION ↗
- Who funds Greater Washington Aviation Open INC ↗
- Who funds National Democratic Club ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Aviation Club of Washington DC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUB OF CAPITOL HILL INC ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT SAFETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEDEX PILOTS CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds Chamber of Commerce of the USA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LATIN PROFESSIONALS IN AEROSPACE INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DELTA PILOTS CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American Bar Association ↗
- Who funds AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds RTCA INC ↗
- Who funds The Economic Club of Washington DC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds North Dakota State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION OF BLACK AEROSPACE PROFESSIONALS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Air Line Pilots Association International funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.