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AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC

AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,076 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($178,617). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2021
$66k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$318k
Net assets
$0
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Air Force Academy Foundation Inc does

Mission

Support to air force academy

As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.

Program

To provide the air force academy with facilities that could not be funded with appropriated money.provides support to the friends of the libray and air force academy athletic cen

The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2018 Revenue 100 ($94k) Expenses 101 ($96k) Net assets 98 ($51k)2019 Revenue 81 ($76k) Expenses 32 ($31k) Net assets 187 ($96k)2020 Revenue 71 ($67k) Expenses 113 ($107k) Net assets 98 ($50k)2021 Revenue 70 ($66k) Expenses 122 ($116k) Net assets 0 ($0)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (70)Expenses (122)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $51k to $0 (−100%).

$51k
$51k
$96k
$51k
$0
20172018201920202021
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$1k
’17
−$2k
’18
$45k
’19
−$40k
’20
−$50k
’21
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $8k → $201k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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

AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

99% 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 AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC.

56%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 92% · 2019 62% · 2020 47% · 2021 77% · 2022 89% — 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

40% of AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

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

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 FY2022, 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

85% of AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $47k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Colorado funders.

IL
NJ
CO
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Organizations like AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION 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 Colorado

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

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 1 state

CO

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: 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 AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,076 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($178,617). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $318,076 in grants to AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $178,617 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AIR FORCE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 8 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