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FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC

Foundation for free flight is a public charitable foundation staffed by unpaid volunteers dedicatedto the preservation of hand gliding and paragliding in the united states.

$44k
Granted FY2021
2
Itemized grants FY2021
2
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$37k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
2
Total assets, FY2021
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Recreation & SportsOther
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
FY20212$37k0%
FY20201$10k100%
FY20196$70k33%
FY20183$36k67%
FY20174$76kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Recreation & Sports$180kEnvironment$43kEmployment$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
MT
OR
NV
CA
UT
TN
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tennessee Tree Toppers Inc$48,51437%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($180k), not named here.

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How do I get to FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC?

Find your warmest path to FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC 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.

About FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC

How much does FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC give?
FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC reported 2 itemized grants totaling $36,817, out of $43,913 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (79%), Environment (19%), Employment (3%).
Who are FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Tennessee Tree Toppers Inc ($49k).
Does FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC based?
FOUNDATION FOR FREE FLIGHT co Kimerling & Wisdom LLC is based in NY.

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 2021, released 2021. 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 $27k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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