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Able Flight Inc

Able Flight Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,817 to it, the largest being THE TBMOPA FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$322k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$664k
Net assets
$140k
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 66%
01What it does

What Able Flight Inc does

Mission

Able Flights mission is to offer people with disabilities a unique way to challenge themselves through flight training or aviation career training and by doing so to gain greater self-confidence and self-reliance.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Able Flight continued its program of awarding flight training and aviation career training scholarships to people with physical disabilities. This included two grants totaling $210,000 made in to Southern Illinois University for 2025 program services one grant of $36,314 to SIU for 2024 program services and one grant of $26,881 made to Purdue University for 2024 program services.

    $428,464 spentof which $272,195 as grants
    100% of program spending
  2. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $428,464.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($231k) Expenses 100 ($182k) Net assets 100 ($280k)2018 Revenue 89 ($206k) Expenses 103 ($188k) Net assets 106 ($298k)2019 Revenue 68 ($157k) Expenses 76 ($139k) Net assets 103 ($290k)2020 Revenue 62 ($142k) Expenses 47 ($86k) Net assets 123 ($346k)2021 Revenue 98 ($227k) Expenses 84 ($152k) Net assets 150 ($420k)2022 Revenue 104 ($241k) Expenses 94 ($172k) Net assets 174 ($489k)2023 Revenue 75 ($173k) Expenses 161 ($293k) Net assets 132 ($369k)2024 Revenue 143 ($331k) Expenses 249 ($453k) Net assets 88 ($246k)2025 Revenue 140 ($322k) Expenses 235 ($428k) Net assets 50 ($140k)
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Revenue (140)Expenses (235)Net assets (50)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $369k to $246k (−33%).

$280k
$298k
$290k
$346k
$420k
$489k
$369k
$246k
$140k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Able Flight Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$48k
’17
$18k
’18
$18k
’19
$56k
’20
$74k
’21
$69k
’22
−$120k
’23
−$123k
’24
−$106k
’25
3.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Charles Stites

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2017201820212022202320242025
Listed1444444
Joined···+0+1+0+0
No longer listed···0100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $39k → $85k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Able Flight Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Able Flight Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Able Flight Inc.

24%
largest funder
52%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 52% · 2019 70% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 63% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

83% of Able Flight Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

Able Flight Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 6 states in all.

NY
PA
CA
DE
GA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Able Flight Inc's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−33% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Able Flight Inc

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 3 states

WI
NC
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds Able Flight Inc?
Able Flight Inc (North Carolina) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $663,817 to it, the largest being THE TBMOPA FOUNDATION INC ($160,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Able Flight Inc have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $663,817 in grants to Able Flight Inc, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Able Flight Inc?
THE TBMOPA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Able Flight Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing