Minnesota · Nonprofit
FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM
FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300 to it, the largest being Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM has grown faster than half of the 17,904 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
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.
- Jeannette and Curt Olson Foundationlocal
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio match
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $6k → $1k.
From the IRS filings of FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII 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
FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2018 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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
FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM draws 86% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 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.
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.
- Jeannette and Curt Olson FoundationlocalMN · funds 10 organizations near you
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Honor Flight Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virginia Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Museums Alaska Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Florida Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Veterans of Foreign Wars of The United Statesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $45k on record.
- Department of Defense$45k
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 FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM?
- FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,300 to it, the largest being Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation ($6,300). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,300 in grants to FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM.
- Who is the largest funder of FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM?
- Air Force Heritage Flight Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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