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FIRST AIR FORCE ONE

FIRST AIR FORCE ONE (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,667 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA SATSLAB INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$420k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$79k
Net assets
$-249717
1/13 repeat funders
01What it does

What First Air Force One does

Mission

Restoration of the First Air Force One to its original grandeur as it was when president and mrs. Eisenhower were flying on her.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To transform columbine ii from a relic of the past into a flying museum that inspires students, honors veterans, and reminds future generations of the values that define america.

    $48,470 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,470.

02The organization over time

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

W Phil Douglas

Executive director

Board chair

Michael Stoltzfus

Board chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FIRST AIR FORCE ONE’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

FIRST AIR FORCE ONE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

98% 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 FIRST AIR FORCE ONE.

64%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

97% of FIRST AIR FORCE ONE's grant income comes from Virginia funders.

MI
OH
CA
NE
MO
VA
OK
FL

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $27k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

FIRST AIR FORCE ONE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like FIRST AIR FORCE ONE

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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

15% of spending goes to programs.

Program 15%Management 4%Fundraising 82%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

VA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FIRST AIR FORCE ONE: 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 FIRST AIR FORCE ONE?
FIRST AIR FORCE ONE (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $78,667 to it, the largest being VIRGINIA SATSLAB INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST AIR FORCE ONE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $78,667 in grants to FIRST AIR FORCE ONE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST AIR FORCE ONE?
VIRGINIA SATSLAB INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST AIR FORCE ONE 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.

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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 13 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