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COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL

COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,592 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($7,515). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$196k
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
$16k
Grants received
$234k
Net assets
3/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve17.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($91k) Expenses 100 ($116k) Net assets 100 ($151k)2018 Revenue 78 ($71k) Expenses 48 ($56k) Net assets 110 ($166k)2019 Revenue 132 ($121k) Expenses 102 ($119k) Net assets 111 ($168k)2020 Revenue 95 ($87k) Expenses 79 ($92k) Net assets 109 ($164k)2021 Revenue 82 ($74k) Expenses 59 ($69k) Net assets 111 ($168k)2022 Revenue 143 ($130k) Expenses 106 ($123k) Net assets 116 ($175k)2023 Revenue 178 ($162k) Expenses 139 ($161k) Net assets 116 ($175k)2024 Revenue 215 ($196k) Expenses 118 ($137k) Net assets 154 ($234k)
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Revenue (215)Expenses (118)Net assets (154)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

96% of COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,459 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$25k
17
$15k
18
$2k
19
$5k
20
$5k
21
$7k
22
$322
23
$58k
24
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $376.

2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)63% 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 COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL’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

COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

63% 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 COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL.

48%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 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

63% of COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 3 states.

OR
NJ
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
19
20
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Virginia

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL: 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 COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL?
COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,592 to it, the largest being Network for Good ($7,515). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 63% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $15,592 in grants to COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL?
Network for Good is the largest funder on record, with $7,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COAST GUARD AVIATION ASSOCIATION ANCIENT ORDER OF THE PTERODACTYL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing