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Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc)

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$57k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Education$104kScience & Tech$100k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Middlesboro Independent Schools$103,9181n/a
Aurelia Institute Inc$50,00024%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

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About Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc)

How much does Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) give?
Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) reported 2 grants totaling $75,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Science & Tech (49%).
Who are Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Middlesboro Independent Schools ($104k), Aurelia Institute Inc ($50k).
Does Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) based?
Perseid Foundation (formerly Tennessee Museum of Flight Inc) is based in TN.

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 3 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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