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AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC

AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,850 to it, the largest being AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ($125,490). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$812k
Revenue FY2025
2
Funders on record
$131k
Grants received
$708k
Net assets
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 23%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($515k) Expenses 100 ($455k) Net assets 100 ($629k)2018 Revenue 91 ($466k) Expenses 103 ($470k) Net assets 101 ($636k)2019 Revenue 89 ($460k) Expenses 100 ($457k) Net assets 104 ($653k)2020 Revenue 88 ($452k) Expenses 89 ($403k) Net assets 112 ($704k)2021 Revenue 7 ($39k) Expenses 21 ($97k) Net assets 111 ($698k)2022 Revenue 48 ($249k) Expenses 59 ($270k) Net assets 105 ($661k)2023 Revenue 104 ($538k) Expenses 116 ($528k) Net assets 106 ($666k)2024 Revenue 113 ($580k) Expenses 127 ($579k) Net assets 109 ($684k)2025 Revenue 158 ($812k) Expenses 175 ($797k) Net assets 112 ($708k)
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Revenue (158)Expenses (175)Net assets (112)

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

Surplus & reserves

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

$60k
17
$4k
18
$3k
19
$49k
20
$59k
21
$21k
22
$10k
23
$455
24
$15k
25
6.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $14k → $26k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
2

From the IRS filings of AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC’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

AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC.

96%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100%broadly stable.

“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.

Where its funders are

AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state in all.

VA

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

17
18
19
21
22
23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC

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

In Washington, D.C.

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Governance

31
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Aero Club Foundation of Washington DC · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC?
AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $130,850 to it, the largest being AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL ($125,490). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $130,850 in grants to AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC?
AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $125,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AERO CLUB OF WASHINGTON DC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing