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Citation Jet Pilots Safety and Education Foundation Inc

The foundation is organized and shall operate exclusively for educational, charitable, scientific or literary purposes, or any combination of the foregoing, including without limitation: 1.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.1MEducation$485kHuman Services$10kYouth Development$9k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$125,568
Median grant
1
States reached
$407k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITATION JET PILOTS INC$125,568
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 (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $10k → 11%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 3 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$1.6M
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-19%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CJ
    CITATION JET PILOTS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $1.2M · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $363k · revenue +61%
  • BS
    BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2023 · $56k · revenue -94%

Funded once

  • ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -53%
  • EA
    Epic Aviation Education and Saftey Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • VA
    VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -19%
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
Aviation Education Foundation
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2
Air Transport Association of America Inc

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…

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3
Aircraft Electronics Association

To encourage and advance the science of aircraft electronics.

—
4
Aviation Foundation of America

Promote and preserve general aviation and aviation history.

Arts & Culture
5
American Airpower Museum Co Cockpit Cpt Usa Llc
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6
Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum

The organization's mission is to educate and inspire people of all ages about aviation and space endeavors of the past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture
7
Air University Foundation

Air university foundation seeks to raise funds to provide financial assistance to air university schools and agencies for the advancement of the study of air and space power.

International
8
Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum
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9
The Aopa Foundation Inc

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…

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Inspire Aviation Foundation Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Lone Star Flight Museum

Lone Star Flight Museum (LSFM) celebrates flight and achievements in Texas aviation, engages youth through STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), and believes aviation inspires achievement and endless possibilities.

Arts & Culture
12
Air & Space Forces Association

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Astronaut Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is L3HARRIS Foundation Inc. 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

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 9 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
1/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITATION JET PILOTS INC: $1,223,352 · Community ImprovementCITATION JET PILOTS INCEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $362,511 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL…ASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOU…BLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,735 · OtherEpic Aviation Education and Saftey Foundation Inc: $16,734 · OtherL3HARRIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $10,000 · Human ServicesANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY: $8,500 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$1,223,352Education$392,511Other$82,469Human Services$10,000Health$10,000Youth Development$8,500

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 budgetCITATION JET PILOTS INC: $1,223,352 over 2y, 36% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: $362,511 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $55,735 over 3y, 17% of budgetASTRONAUT SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT WEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY: $8,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Citation Jet Pilots Safety and Education Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Citation Jet Pilots Safety and Education Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Citation Jet Pilots Safety and Education Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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