· Private foundation
Sporty's Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI | $20,000 |
| AIRCRAFT ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| AVIT FLIGHT ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DAN BEARD COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Sporty's Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EAEXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $133k · revenue +35%
- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $50k · revenue +85%
- TCTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE3× · 2019–2021 · $40k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- DCDULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INCone grant, 2017 · $69k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $69k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $60k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The foundation supports the military aviation museum.
The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.
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…
The military aviation museum honors the heroes who built, flew and maintained america's military aircraft. by sharing their stories through exhibitions and events, we promote an understanding of history, science, service and sacrifice that…
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…
Collect and preserve historical data, artifacts, and scientific objects with regard to the country's fighter aces, its military aviation and aviators' history. educate the public about the experience in military combat and offer…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 63 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AVIATION FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds AIRCRAFT ELECTRONICS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RECREATIONAL AVIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN AVIATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SEAPLANE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NAVAL AVIATION MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VISION AVIATION ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sporty's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sporty's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Inc: 13% of income from government
How this is measured
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