Florida · Nonprofit
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,493,472 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($3,145,112). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $864M
- Funders on record
- 224
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $1.3B
What Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc does
Mission
Embry-riddle is the world leader in aviation and aerospace higher education. Its mission is to teach the science, practice and business of aviation and aerospace, preparing students for productive careers and leadership roles in business, government and the military. The university's leadership position is rooted in its aviation heritage, which dates back to 1926.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Embry-riddle aeronautical university is an accredited institution of higher education founded in 1926, specializing in aviation, aerospace, and related stem fields. The university offers degree programs in disciplines including applied science, aviation, business, computing and technology, engineering, safety, security and intelligence, and space. The university is accredited by the southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges (sacscoc) to award degrees at the associate, baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels.
$621,207,171 spentof which $182,333,454 as grants$755,078,486 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $621,207,171.
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 2019 to 2020, from $887M to $1.1B (+24%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 7% · 2022 8% · 2023 4% · 2024 8% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Morteza Hosseini
Board member - chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 27 funders to 74 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $3.2M.
33 of 224 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 224 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
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
61% 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 EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 59% · 2019 22% · 2020 9% · 2021 26% · 2022 20% · 2023 29% — 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
34% of EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 37 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.6M 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
EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $204.8M on record — $204.8M federal, $34k state.
- Department of Defense$67.0M
- Department of Education$52.1M
- National Science Foundation$38.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$23.7M
- Department of Transportation$15.4M
- Department of Energy$2.5M
- NJ$26k
- FL$8k
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 EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Embry-Riddle Brasil Educacao Aeronautica Ltda (Fka Embry-Riddle Brasil Part · disregarded
- Embry-Riddle Europe Gmbh · disregarded
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Asia Ltd · exempt
- Eagle Flying Club of Erau · exempt
- Erau Asia Institute Ltd · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC: 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 EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC?
- EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC (Florida) receives grants from 224 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,493,472 to it, the largest being INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ($3,145,112). 115 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 224 organizations giving $17,493,472 in grants to EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC, 115 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC?
- INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,145,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 224 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