Virginia · Nonprofit
AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION
AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,887,815 to it, the largest being THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN FOUNDATION ($7,400,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,063 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,063 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Bradley Impact Fund Incshared funders
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio match
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $47k → $1.1M.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $16M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Afa Title Holding Company). These are real filings, and they are not money AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. 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
AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 38% · 2019 88% · 2020 89% · 2021 83% · 2022 71% · 2023 69% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
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
83% of AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $985k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 statesis 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.
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. Your 52 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Bradley Impact Fund Incshared fundersWI · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Asae Research Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Institute of Certified Public Accountantsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonczyk Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emil Buehler Perpetual Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Snapp Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of the United States Armyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stephen and Rosamund Forrest Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Air Line Pilots Association Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richard W and Jean P Wright Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.0M on record.
- Department of Defense$3.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$151k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Afa Title Holding Company · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION?
- AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION (Virginia) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,887,815 to it, the largest being THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN FOUNDATION ($7,400,000). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $9,887,815 in grants to AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION?
- THE NORTHROP GRUMMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIR & SPACE FORCES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52funders 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