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International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundation

Support individuals and institutions that promote the advancement of commerical aviation and humanitarianism.

$764k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

International$1.7MEducation$305kArts & Culture$232kHuman Services$147kHealth$75kYouth Development$36kReligion$20kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$241k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $176,372 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $763,671 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $587,299 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIRLINK INC$80,000
OPAS FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME$10,000
SAN DIEGO AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM$10,000
INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC$10,000
YOUTH AVIATION ADVENTURE$10,000
WE WERE ONCE THEM$10,000
PINHEAD INSTITUTE INC$8,272
AIRSERV INTERNATIONAL$8,000
INTERNATIONAL AVIATION WOMENS ASSOCIATION$7,850
HAITI AIR AIMBULANCE SERVICE INC$7,000
PARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNTIY HEALTH$5,250
02The need
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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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–20, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $70k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WOLRD FOOD PROGRAM: $36k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE WOLRD FOOD PROGRAM: $33k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region — $397k on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $102k to organizations and $294k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$309k · 78% · 1 grant · 25 people

Stated purpose: GRANTS · SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

East Asia and the Pacific$61k · 15% · 1 grant · 3 people

Stated purpose: GRANTS · SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

Sub-Saharan Africa$17k · 4% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: GRANTS · SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

South America$10k · 2% · 2 people

Stated purpose: SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 28% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 19 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$2.5M
$247k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Arts & CultureInternationalEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

  • AI
    AIRLINK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +399%
  • EA
    EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $144k · revenue +69%
  • FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $139k · revenue +585%

Funded once

  • PT
    Pathways to Aviation
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $28k · revenue +12%
  • MA
    MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2017 · $25k

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

04Your field

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.

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American Airpower Museum Co Cockpit Cpt Usa Llc
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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
The Yanks Air Museum
Arts & Culture
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Aviation Education Foundation
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5
Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum
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Kentucky Aviation Museum Inc
Arts & Culture
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Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

To advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics and to nurture and promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits. the institute encourages original research, fosters dissemination of new…

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9
Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum

The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.

Arts & Culture
10
Aerial Investigation Regiment Air Inc
Human Services
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
National Aeronautic Association Inc

To advance the art, sport, and science of aviation and space flight by fostering opportunities to participate fully in the aviation activities and by promoting public understanding of the importance of aviation and space flight in the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Airlink Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Air Ambulance Service Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr18%19%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr15%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%65%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr16%11%35–55yr15%6%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
1,600/12,963

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
22/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AIRLINK INC — $1,491,135 · InternationalAIRLINK INCAir Serv International Inc — $85,000 · International+3 more — $99,750 · International+3 moreEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $143,754 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE…WOMEN IN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $79,500 · EducationWOMEN IN AVI…Lewis University — $47,861 · EducationLewis Univer…VAUGHN COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY — $14,173 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 · Education+1 more — $7,000 · EducationPathways to Aviation — $75,000 · OtherPathways to…ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $33,000 · OtherANGEL FLIGH…MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP — $25,000 · OtherMISSION AVI…TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY — $19,276 · OtherTRUSTEES OF…NATIONAL AVIATION HALL OF FAME — $15,000 · OtherNorth Country Life Flight Inc — $14,868 · OtherMuseum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherWE WERE ONCE THEM — $10,000 · OtherMERCY AIR INC — $19,900 · OtherMERCY AIR I…INTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE WOMENS ASSOCIATION — $15,150 · OtherINTERNATION…+5 more — $35,856 · Other+5 morePathways to Aviation — $72,000 · Arts & CulturePathways …INTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureINTREPID …OPAS FOUNDATION — $32,500 · Arts & CultureOPAS FOUN…SAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO…Aviation Hall of Fame — $17,500 · Arts & CultureAviation …+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $139,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $8,000 · Human ServicesANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $74,500 · HealthAIR CAMP INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH AVIATION ADVENTURE — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Pinhead Institute — $8,272 · Youth Development
International$1,675,885Education$304,788Other$283,050Arts & Culture$232,000Human Services$147,000Health$74,500Youth Development$35,772

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAIRLINK INC — $1,491,135 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $143,754 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $139,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAir Serv International Inc — $85,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetWOMEN IN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL INC — $79,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $74,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetPathways to Aviation — $72,000 over 5y, 45% of budgetINTREPID MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $70,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE — $52,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLewis University — $47,861 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC — $33,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOPAS FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC — $27,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO AIR & SPACE MUSEUM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR ANDEAN COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $20,250 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetMERCY AIR INC — $19,900 over 2y, 10% of budgetAviation Hall of Fame — $17,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAIR CAMP INC — $17,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AEROSPACE WOMENS ASSOCIATION — $15,150 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Country Life Flight Inc — $14,868 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetVAUGHN COLLEGE OF AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY — $14,173 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Aviation at Robins AFB Georgia Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Pinhead Institute — $8,272 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NINETY-NINES INC — $7,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILLER AVIATION INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA AIR & SPACE CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEM Santa Fe — $7,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHAITI AIR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC — $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Embraer Foundation IncConrad N Hilton Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…
Embraer Foundation IncFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Embraer Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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