Alabama · Nonprofit
CIVIL AIR PATROL INC
CIVIL AIR PATROL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,341,529 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($941,560). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95M
- Funders on record
- 70
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $235M
What Civil Air Patrol Inc does
Mission
Supporting america's communities with emergency response, diverse aviation and ground services, youth development and promotion of air, cyber, and space power.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Emergency services: cap supported search and rescue (sar) missions across the country. Cap saved lives on these sar missions tasked by the air force rescue coordination center and joint rescue coordination centers. Personnel supported homeland security efforts by flying cap aircraft in intercept training for the air force and the department of homeland security. Cap also flew in support of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. Cap also responded to numerous natural disasters, primarily taking aerial photographs for use by local officials and responders to assess damage, allocating their own funds and resources effectively. With volunteer members from various backgrounds and cap's extensive professional development and training, cap delivers quality and reliable services that are also cost-effective.
$41,794,147 spent$4,437,389 earned by the program55% of program spendingCadet programs: the cap cadet program transforms youth aged 12 to 20 into responsible citizens and aerospace leaders. Cadets develop leadership skills, explore career opportunities in aerospace and cyber, become physically fit, and embrace a set of lifelong core values through service learning projects, mentoring opportunities, and high adventure activities, such as opportunities to fly powered aircraft and gliders, making the program exciting and motivating the youth to excel academically and as young adults. The cadet experience challenges and inspires youth unlike anything available through school, sports, or clubs. Today's cadets are tomorrow's aerospace leaders.
$18,070,792 spentof which $1,082,416 as grants$1,918,621 earned by the program24% of program spendingAerospace education and training: cap's aerospace education programs and resource materials, emphasizing the stem subjects of science, technology, engineering, and math, were used by students and teachers nationwide. New stem kits, to include robotics, remote-controlled aircraft, flight simulators, astronomy, weather stations, rockets, quad copters, and hydraulic engineering were developed to expand cap members' knowledge of stem-related areas. Cap offers educators a special aerospace education membership (aem) that includes access to over 35 educational products, orientation flights, grants, awards, and professional development. Cap aems flew in orientation flights to learn first-hand about the flight principles and career opportunities, and to share with students in their classrooms and youth development programs. The unique "aerospace connections in education" (ace) program for grades k-6 impacted students across the country and is introducing aerospace and stem to young students.
$6,755,216 spentof which $77,586 as grants$717,218 earned by the program9% of program spendingCounterdrug: the program serves to augment capabilities of federal law enforcement agencies, primarily the department of homeland security, customs and border protection, through jtfn for aerial training and assessment missions. The main beneficiaries of cap services in this program are federal leas and state and local communities.
$9,270,440 spent$984,266 earned by the program12% of program spendingDrug demand reduction: cap's drug demand reduction (ddr) program has assisted regions, wings, groups, and squadrons in instilling an aggressive, positive, drug-free attitude in cap members, air force families, department of defense civilians, and school-aged children. To that end, cap's ddr program provides leadership, educational materials, and partnerships within institutions and organizations to reach thousands of children and adults with a drug-free message.
$311,244 spent0% of program spendingCommunication maintenance: cap maintains an extensive emergency communications network including vhf land mobile radios supported by repeaters and hf radios which are infrastructure independent. This system is designed to be secure, survivable yet interoperable with the dod and other federal, state, and local agencies, thereby ensuring messages can be successfully relayed during crisis situations. Cap has made a strong effort to rebuild our hf radio network over the last few years so thatour incident command posts and ground teams are not limited during natural disasters where cell phone and other commercial communicationsresources are damaged or overloaded
$1,386,001 spent2% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $75,890,595.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $218M to $247M (+13%).
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: 2017 75% · 2018 77% · 2019 74% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 88% · 2023 84% · 2024 83% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of CIVIL AIR PATROL INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Major Gen Regena Aye
CEO, board advisor
Board chair
Lt Gen Kirk Pierce
Chair (as of 02/25)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $344k → $472k.
22 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $392k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Civil Air Patrol Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CIVIL AIR PATROL INC raised.
From the IRS filings of CIVIL AIR PATROL INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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
CIVIL AIR PATROL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
93% 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 CIVIL AIR PATROL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 69% · 2019 21% · 2020 59% · 2021 46% · 2022 41% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
38% of CIVIL AIR PATROL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
84% of CIVIL AIR PATROL INC'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 $529k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alabama, across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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.
Against its field
CIVIL AIR PATROL INC is better cushioned than half of the 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 37 public safety & disaster nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding CIVIL AIR PATROL INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $575.9M on record — $573.8M federal, $2.1M state.
- Department of Defense$573.8M
- VT$945k
- FL$576k
- DE$316k
- NJ$120k
- OR$110k
- OK$29k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like CIVIL AIR PATROL INC
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 Alabama
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Civil Air Patrol Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CIVIL AIR PATROL INC?
- CIVIL AIR PATROL INC (Alabama) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,341,529 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($941,560). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CIVIL AIR PATROL INC have?
- IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $3,341,529 in grants to CIVIL AIR PATROL INC, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CIVIL AIR PATROL INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $941,560 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CIVIL AIR PATROL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alabama. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 70 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing