Oregon · Nonprofit
EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM
EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,898 to it, the largest being STOLLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($216,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $293k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum does
Mission
Inspire a community for innovation and discovery, preserve aerospace history, and honor those who serve.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum houses the hughes h-4 hercules, better known as the spruce goose, accredited by the asme as the 219th historical mechanical engineering landmark. It is now listed on the national park services register of historic places, further recognizing its historical and engineering significance. The museum hosted 114,423 visitors in 2025, working toward our goal of helping to inform and engage our community. Our museum is a smithsonian affiliate and working toward accreditation with the aam (american alliance of museums). With a mission to inspire a community for innovation and discovery, preserve aerospace history, and honor those who serve. We display 151 exhibits that depict and preserve aerospace history.
$2,739,542 spent$2,039,184 earned by the program98% of program spendingOur restoration program honors our veterans with the opportunity to build and restore historical aircraft. It displays planes in various stages of completion, including completely restored, and needing assembly & fabrication. It gives our visitors a unique view of the restoration process and what can be achieved through the caring hard work of passionate volunteers.
$39,938 spent$7,623 earned by the program1% of program spendingOur education program hosted more than 10,000 students, attending our hands-on educational programs focused on science, technology, engineering, arts and math (steam). Our education programs offer several options for kids to join us from home or in person, including weekly scheduled events, summer camps, scouts programs, virtual field trips, museum home, and a theater. Our museum tours program offers visitors a unique opportunity to tour our museum with our expert docents and volunteers, of whom many are veteran pilots themselves and can offer firsthand experience and stories.
$9,793 spent$183,409 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,789,273.
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 2017 to 2018, from $15M to $2.0M (−86%).
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: 2022 12% · 2023 3% · 2024 17% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Scot Laney
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $5k → $7k.
2 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM’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
EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 52% · 2020 95% · 2021 68% · 2022 99% · 2023 83% — 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
29% of EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
88% of EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Oregon funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $77k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$77k
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 EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM: 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 EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM?
- EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM (Oregon) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $292,898 to it, the largest being STOLLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($216,100). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $292,898 in grants to EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM?
- STOLLER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $216,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EVERGREEN AVIATION AND SPACE MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 11 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