Alabama · Nonprofit
ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL
ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,167,001 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,728,001). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $-699638
What Alabama Aerospace & Aviation High School does
Mission
The mission of the school is to prepare students for leadership positions in the aerospace and aviation industries through a rigorous, authentic, industry-aligned aerospace and defense education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The school offers a unique, career-focused curriculum designed to give students a direct path to the aviation industry and an advanced stem education in an intentionally diverse school community. Through ourrigorous, immersive, and industry-aligned instruction, we are giving our students the skills, curiosity, and inspiration to pursue careers that will challenge and reward them professionally and personally.
$4,303,162 spent$26,656 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,303,162.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $3.3M (+171%).
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: 2022 48% · 2023 56% · 2024 91% · 2025 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Ruben Morris
CEO
Board chair
Scott Underwood
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 10 funders, grant income rose $325k → $1.4M.
1 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL’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
ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 68% · 2022 50% · 2023 52% — 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
75% of ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
51% of ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL's grant income comes from Alabama funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $797k on record.
- Department of Transportation$797k
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 ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL
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 Alabama
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL: 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 ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL?
- ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL (Alabama) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,167,001 to it, the largest being NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA ($1,728,001). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,167,001 in grants to ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL?
- NEW SCHOOLS FOR ALABAMA is the largest funder on record, with $1,728,001 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALABAMA AEROSPACE & AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 12 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