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Experimental Aircraft Association Inc

Experimental aircraft association, inc. Is dedicated to growing aviation through participation and education. We strive to deliver educational offerings and activities which guide new participants and reduce barriers to participation. Eaa (continued on schedule o)ignites and nurtures interest by embracing the "spirit of aviation" in all…

$1.7M
Granted FY2022
2
Itemized grants FY2022
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$60k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Total assets, FY2022
$92M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Experimental Aircraft Association Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$60k50%
FY20212$120k50%
FY20204$45k75%
FY20197$1.2M86%
FY20184$161kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$1.2MEducation$106kScience & Tech$80kCommunity Improvement$50kRecreation & Sports$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kYouth Development$28kPhilanthropy$11k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc$1,216,172220%
Eaa Vintage Aircraft Association Inc$106,315214%
Flyonspeed Incorporated$75,0002n/a
National Business Aviation Association Inc$50,00010%
Aviation Exploration Base Inc$27,907224%
Remora Systems Inc$25,0001n/a
Eaa Warbirds of America Inc$15,00012%
Oshkosh Area United Way Inc$11,00011%
Payson Aero Club LLC$10,0001n/a
Gnoss Field Flying Club Inc$10,0001n/a
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All grantees of Experimental Aircraft Association Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc$1,216,172220%
Eaa Vintage Aircraft Association Inc$106,315214%
Flyonspeed Incorporated$75,0002n/a
National Business Aviation Association Inc$50,00010%
Aviation Exploration Base Inc$27,907224%
Remora Systems Inc$25,0001n/a
Eaa Warbirds of America Inc$15,00012%
Oshkosh Area United Way Inc$11,00011%
Payson Aero Club LLC$10,0001n/a
Gnoss Field Flying Club Inc$10,0001n/a
The Stan Lee Foundation$10,0001n/a
Flying 12 Club LLC$10,0001n/a
Foale Aerospace Inc$10,0001n/a
Air Line Pilots Association International$10,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA1.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

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About Experimental Aircraft Association Inc

How much does Experimental Aircraft Association Inc give?
Experimental Aircraft Association Inc reported 2 itemized grants totaling $60,000, out of $1,748,213 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Experimental Aircraft Association Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (78%), Education (7%), Science & Tech (5%).
Who are Experimental Aircraft Association Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Eaa Vintage Aircraft Association Inc ($106k), Flyonspeed Incorporated ($75k).
Does Experimental Aircraft Association Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Experimental Aircraft Association Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Experimental Aircraft Association Inc based?
Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is based in WI.

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 15 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.1M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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