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CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $74 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($74). 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 FY2025
- $45k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $74
- Net assets
- $86k
What Chapter 20 Experimental Aircraft Association San Francisco Bay Area does
Mission
Promotion of General Aviation to adults and children through introductory plane rides pilot training building of aircraft aviation seminars educational speakers and tours.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Pilot Training 2025: 2 Ray Scholars completed. 2 FAA private pilot check rides passed.
$16,770 spentof which $16,770 as grants47% of program spendingVans RV12 kit plane build project: 30 students involved in the build along with 6 adult mentors.Wings are complete fuselage is complete. Engine on site but not yet mounted. The expenses this year are some carryover expenses from the engine acquistion.
$17,017 spent47% of program spendingEAA National Air Academy Oshkosh WI: Chapter 20 provided tuition for one student to attend the one week course onsite. The course covers various aspects of aviation including design building and operation of aircraft. The course is oriented toward high school students.
$2,093 spent6% of program spendingYoung Eagles flight program. provide introductory flights to children ages 6-17. 175 flights given in 2023. All flights are donations by chapter members.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $35,880.
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 $138k to $184k (+33%).
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.
83% of CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $11 → $36.
1 of 1 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 CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA'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. $74 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
CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA's revenue fell 58% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
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.
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA?
- CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $74 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($74). 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 CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $74 in grants to CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $74 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHAPTER 20 EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 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 1 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