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Breckenridge Aviation Museum at a glance

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Breckenridge Aviation Museum

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$54k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Arts & Culture$280kAnimals$63kHuman Services$15kReligion$5kPublic Benefit$2kEducation$2kHousing & Shelter$1k
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONE STAR FLIGHT MUSEUM$30,000
PLANES OF FAME AIR MUSEUM$10,000
HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY$6,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR$5,000
PAWS OF WAR$1,000
MUTTS WITH A MISSION$1,000
SECOND CHANCE SERVICE DOGS$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $2k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIER PROJECT: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$353k · 10 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$353k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+41%

Still filing today

80%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
AnimalsArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PO
    Planes of Fame Air Museum
    6× · 2018–2026 · $34k · revenue +15%
  • HH
    HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2018–2026 · $20k · revenue +109%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $3k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • RC
    Rothko Chapelgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +41%
  • PF
    PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
    one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -5%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Companions for Heroes

To champion public awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and challenges confronting our countrys heroes and rally support for shelter animal adoption by connecting heroes and companions.

Human Services
2
Paws Need People

Paws need people strive to rescue pets from shelters and provide a place they can stay until they are adopted. they provide pets to veterans through its therapy pet program.

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3
United States War Dogs Association Inc

The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…

Animals
4
Pets for Vets Inc

Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…

Public Benefit
5
Paws for Heroes

To provide comfort & companionship to veterans by rescuing shelter dogs that have been carefully evaluated, selected and professionally trained for the purpose of providing emotional support & companionship.

Animals
6
Healing Paws for Warriors Inc

Healing paws for warriors is a local veteran found / veteran led 501(c)(3) that provides rescue to trained service dogs to veterans faced with post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi) and/or military sexual…

Human Services
7
A Cause to Give Us Paws

Service Dog training for Disabled Veterans

Animals
8
Operational K9 Medical Team of Wisconsin
Animals
9
Warrior Paws Inc

Warrior Paws, Inc. missions is to provide veterans and first responders with service dogs to reduce suicide rates and improve quality of life. We will be a resource hub for veteran services, support and referrals.

Human Services
10
Leashes of Valor

Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…

Public Benefit
11
K9s On the Front Line

Supplying service dogs to verterans with post traumatic stress disorder.

Health
12
Canines for Service Inc

CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spca International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rothko Chapel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Lone Star Flight Museum: $246,500 · Arts & CultureLone Star Flight MuseumPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $33,500 · Arts & CulturePlanes of Fame Air MuseumFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $21,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ASPE…HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · AnimalsHOUSTON HUMANE SOCI…SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,200 · AnimalsSPCA INTERNATIONAL …MUTTS WITH A MISSION: $5,000 · AnimalsMUTTS WITH A MISSIO…+4 more: $6,000 · Animals+4 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR: $11,000 · OtherSEMPER K9: $1,500 · OtherPROJECT K-9: $1,000 · OtherPILOTS TO THE RESCUE: $1,000 · OtherSTEPHENS CO HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · OtherRothko Chapel: $5,000 · ReligionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$280,000Animals$61,700Other$15,500Religion$5,000Human Services$3,000Public Benefit$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLone Star Flight Museum: $246,500 over 10y, 1.5% of budgetPlanes of Fame Air Museum: $33,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER: $21,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetHOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $9,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRothko Chapel: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Lone Star Flight Museum ↗
  • Who funds Planes of Fame Air Museum ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ASPEN ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SPCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION ↗
  • Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF WAR INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PAWS OF HONOR INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE K9 SERVICE DOGS INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Breckenridge Aviation Museum funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Breckenridge Aviation Museum. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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