New Jersey · Nonprofit
AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY
AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $128k
What Aviation Hall of Fame and Museum of New Jersey does
Mission
Operation of a museum dedicated to aviation
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operation of a museum at teterboro airport dedicated to aviation. This forms the basis of its tax exempt status. The museum benefits approximately 10,000 people annually.
$102,580 spent$32,577 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $102,580.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $317k to $246k (−22%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 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
Ralph Villecca
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $10k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 80% 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 AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY’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
AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% 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
80% 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 AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 50% · 2020 97% · 2021 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
80% of AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 60% of it comes from funders outside New Jersey, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY's revenue fell 33% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY: 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 AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY?
- AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,730 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 80% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $12,730 in grants to AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AVIATION HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM OF NEW JERSEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), 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