California · Nonprofit
Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation
Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,842 to it, the largest being TOWSON RECREATION COUNCIL ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $238k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation is to provide financial assistance support services and advocacy for the Army Aviation community and its Gold Star Families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
The Blue Skies Foundation officially launch its Legacy Preservation program which delivered public support in the amount of 6,136. This program is dedicated to memorializing the legacies of fallen US Army air crews through fundraising for memorial projects and production of memorial bracelets with the names of our fallen.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
The Gold Star Financial Support program provided grants to 15 families affected by a Class A fatal U.S. Army Aviation mishap to provide assistance with family travel lodging funeral expenses and incidentals
$143,251 spentof which $143,251 as grants96% of program spendingThe Legacy Preservation program produced memorial patches for wear on the official army uniform as well as memorial bracelets for Army units and Gold Star families who experienced three major Army Aviation mishaps.
$6,136 spentof which $6,136 as grants4% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $149,387.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $72k to $140k (+93%).
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.
96% of Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Spencer Payne
President and Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $286.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Brotallion Blue Skies 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
Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
68% 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 Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $842 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
Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation: 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 Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation?
- Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,842 to it, the largest being TOWSON RECREATION COUNCIL ($10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $15,842 in grants to Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation?
- TOWSON RECREATION COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brotallion Blue Skies Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2021–2025), 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