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Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment

Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,250 to it, the largest being ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM ($14,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2022
$28k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$22k
Net assets
$729k
1/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%
01What it does

What Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment does

Mission

The mission of the Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment is to enhance and ensure the financial security of the Alaska Aviation Museum now and for future generations.

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Alaska Aviation Museum Board of Directors created the Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment (AAME) to provide a sustainable source of revenue for the Museum to maintain and expand its collections and introduce new exhibits. In doing so, we will provide for the growth, stability and continuation of the Museum and the preservation of Alaskas aviation history in perpetuity.

    $31,967 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $31,967.

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 ($551k) Expenses 0 ($0) Net assets 100 ($551k)2018 Revenue 4 ($22k) Expenses 100 ($100k) Net assets 86 ($473k)2019 Revenue 31 ($173k) Expenses 8 ($8k) Net assets 116 ($638k)2020 Revenue 11 ($63k) Expenses 34 ($34k) Net assets 121 ($666k)2021 Revenue 41 ($226k) Expenses 14 ($14k) Net assets 159 ($878k)2022 Revenue 5 ($28k) Expenses 32 ($32k) Net assets 132 ($729k)
201720182019202020212022
Revenue (5)Expenses (32)Net assets (132)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 2020 to 2021, from $666k to $878k (+32%).

$551k
$474k
$638k
$666k
$878k
$729k
201720182019202020212022
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$551k
’17
−$79k
’18
$165k
’19
$28k
’20
$212k
’21
−$4k
’22
7.3
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

Phyllis Kilgore

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.

20172019202020212022
Listed55555
Joined··+0+2+1
No longer listed··021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $8k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
total
$14k
funders
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment’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

Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% 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 Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment.

64%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 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

100% of Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK

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

’20
’21
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−13% · below the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,184 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2022

Organizations like Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment

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 Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

66%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment?
Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,250 to it, the largest being ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM ($14,250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $22,250 in grants to Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment?
ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM is the largest funder on record, with $14,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 2 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