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BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION

BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2020
$57k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$66k
Net assets
$13k
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 35%
01What it does

What Betty Flies Inc Dba the Bettyflies Foundation does

Mission

The bettyflies foundation funds aviation-related programs that encourage personal development, create science, technology, engineering and mathematics education opportunities for young people, while sustaining the legacy of aviation hero betty haas pfister.

As stated on its FY2020 Form 990-EZ.

Program

The bettyflies foundation provided $60,000 in fight school scholarships for aspen high school students. The aspen high school supports aviation curriculum as an applied science. This program aligns with the bettyflies foundation mission of promoting a broader interest in stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

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 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($210k) Expenses 100 ($144k) Net assets 100 ($66k)2020 Revenue 27 ($57k) Expenses 76 ($110k) Net assets 20 ($13k)
20192020
Revenue (27)Expenses (76)Net assets (20)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 2019 to 2020, from $66k to $13k (−80%).

$66k
$13k
20192020
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.

2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 26,798 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’19
−$53k
’20
5.5
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $46k → $20k.

3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION’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

BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% 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 BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION.

69%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 55% · 2020 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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 BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Against its field

BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION's revenue fell 73% between 2019 and 2020.

Operating margin−93% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−73% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,624 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2020

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05Profile & governance

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

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Questions and answers

Who funds BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION?
BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,500 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $65,500 in grants to BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION?
MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BETTY FLIES INC DBA THE BETTYFLIES FOUNDATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2020 (financials across 2019–2020), and the filings of 3 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