Virginia · Nonprofit
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,410 to it, the largest being Great Lakes Chapter American Association of Airport Services ($92,060). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $30M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $234k
- Net assets
- $8.1M
What American Association of Airport Executives Inc does
Mission
American association of airport executives (aaae), founded in 1928, is the largest professional organization for airport executives in the world, representing thousands of airport management personnel at public-use airports of all sizes. Aaae's primary goal is to help airport executives fulfill their responsibilities to the airports and communities they serve, to enhance industry professionalism and help airport executives stay ahead of the growing demands placed on them, to represent airports before congress and the federal government, to provide vital communication links among airport executives to help them perform their duties on behalf of their airports and communities, to provide appropriate recognition to individuals who have made significant contributions to the airport management profession and to the communities they serve, to further pursue research and development in the airport management industry, to provide fast and easy access to training and information for the member.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The association held numerous seminars, workshops and conferences throughout the world that addressed a wide range of specific airport management issues additionally and in conjunction with the faa training schools on airport safety, security and operations issues were presented.
The association continues to produce customized training systems using its patented interactive employee training (iet) system. The iet system is a computer based, turn-key system using touch-screen technology and full-screen digital video that can train a large number of individuals 24 hours a day, seven days a week, without instructors or classrooms.
The association runs the airport legislative program to represent airports on capitol hill, and to provide airports with up-to-the-minute information regarding federal legislative actions and activities. It also provides support to airports that wish to contact their members of congress in its well-established government affairs program. The staff and members have cultivated a vital and ongoing relationship with powerful congressional officials.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $30M to $35M (+16%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Rick Crider Aae
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $12k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES 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
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 63% · 2021 100% · 2022 47% · 2023 46% — 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.
Where its funders are
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Government funding AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.6M on record — $5.6M federal, $5k state.
- United States Trade and Development Agency$5.5M
- Department of Defense$88k
- Department of Agriculture$15k
- VT$4k
- OK$2k
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 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Aaae Real Estate LLC · disregarded
- Aaae Foundation · exempt
- Airport Research and Development · exempt
- Aaae Relief Foundation · exempt
- Aaae Services Coproration Inc · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC?
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $234,410 to it, the largest being Great Lakes Chapter American Association of Airport Services ($92,060). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $234,410 in grants to AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC?
- Great Lakes Chapter American Association of Airport Services is the largest funder on record, with $92,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC 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 5 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