· Public charity
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $132,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $182,333,454 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $182,201,454 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC | $77,000 |
| MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| SELECTFLORIDA INC | $10,000 |
| BROWN RIVERFRONT ESPLANADE FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- EAEXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $435k · revenue +21%
- MOMUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue ×32
- MOMUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2025 · $48k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- SFSPACE FLORIDAone grant, 2024 · $6.0M
- SSStarter Studio FL Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +197%
- ASAIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business,…
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 preserve and enhance the future of flight through world-class events, inspiring and educating people of all ages.
To promote visitation to florida by strengthening florida's share of the global travel market with the goal of maximizing the economic impact of travel and tourism to florida.
To engage, educate, and accelerate the next generation of aerospace professionals.
To encourage and advance the science of aircraft electronics.
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.
To foster an environment that allows business aviation to thrive in the united states and around the world.
Promote and preserve general aviation and aviation history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Experimental Aircraft Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brown Riverfront Esplanade 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.
17 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. 17 of the 20 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 Starter Studio FL Inc ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN RIVERFRONT ESPLANADE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE KIDDIE HAWK AIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TEAM VOLUSIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTONA REGIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SELECTFLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Aviation Hall of Fame ↗
- Who funds HALIFAX MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Selectflorida Inc — 35% 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.