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Cadet Air Corps Museum

Cadet Air Corps Museum (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being AUGUST A BUSCH III CHARITABLE TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$291k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$245k
Net assets
$773k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%
01What it does

What Cadet Air Corps Museum does

Mission

The Corporation endeavours to educate the public about aviation history and to honor veterans by creating and flying World War trainer aircraft

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Corporation endeavours to educate the public about aviation history and to honor veterans by creating and flying World War trainer aircraft

    $420,158 spent$290,509 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $420,158.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($130k) Expenses 100 ($162k) Net assets 100 ($259k)2021 Revenue 0 ($250) Expenses 40 ($65k) Net assets 75 ($194k)2022 Revenue 212 ($275k) Expenses 170 ($275k) Net assets 181 ($469k)2023 Revenue 341 ($444k) Expenses 75 ($122k) Net assets 349 ($903k)2024 Revenue 223 ($291k) Expenses 259 ($420k) Net assets 299 ($773k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (223)Expenses (259)Net assets (299)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 2022 to 2023, from $469k to $903k (+92%).

$259k
$194k
$469k
$903k
$773k
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Cadet Air Corps Museum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$32k
’20
−$65k
’21
$0
’22
$322k
’23
−$130k
’24
9.7
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed33333
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $30k → $160k.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Cadet Air Corps Museum’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

Cadet Air Corps Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

39% 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 Cadet Air Corps Museum.

61%
largest funder
88%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 94% — 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

77% of Cadet Air Corps Museum's grant income comes from Missouri funders.

MO
MD
DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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

Cadet Air Corps Museum has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−45% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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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

3
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Cadet Air Corps Museum?
Cadet Air Corps Museum (Missouri) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $245,000 to it, the largest being AUGUST A BUSCH III CHARITABLE TRUST ($150,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Cadet Air Corps Museum have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $245,000 in grants to Cadet Air Corps Museum, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Cadet Air Corps Museum?
AUGUST A BUSCH III CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Cadet Air Corps Museum find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2024), 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