Connecticut · Nonprofit
CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS
CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,900 to it, the largest being THE HUISKING FOUNDATION INC ($12,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $115k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $32k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Connecticut Aerospace Hall of Fame & Mus does
Mission
The connecticut air & space center is a non-profit air museum that displays vintage aircraft, memorabilia, and artifacts that pertain to connecticut, both inside and out. The museum's motto is to: honor, preserve, educate.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
To form an association of persons whose interest is in the past, present and future development of aviation and aerospace technology, with special emphasis on the historic contributions made within the state of connecticut and by its citizens.
$0 spentTo develop an educational facility to conduct seminars, workshops and assemblies on aviation and aerospace history to benefit the community and its elementary, high school and college students.
$0 spentTo support and train historians, students, experts, tradespeople and technicians to maintain and restore a collection of aircraft and aerospace-related exhibits for public access in a museum setting and to provide a reference library for researchers and scholars.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $17k → $6k.
From the IRS filings of CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS’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
CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2019 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
CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS?
- CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS (Connecticut) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,900 to it, the largest being THE HUISKING FOUNDATION INC ($12,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $31,900 in grants to CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS?
- THE HUISKING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $12,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONNECTICUT AEROSPACE HALL OF FAME & MUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2024–2024), 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