North Carolina · Nonprofit
FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED
FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,448 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $31k
- Net assets
- $92k
What First Flight Society Incorporated does
Mission
Vision: one day people everywhere will be inspired by the dauntless resolution and tireless work of the wright brothers. Mission: we tell the story of the wright brothers through community events, education, and the commemoration of the worlds very first powered flight, in kitty hawk, nc.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Wright brother day
$7,422 spent69% of program spendingNational aviation day
$850 spent8% of program spendingWilburs birthday
$2,530 spent23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,802.
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.
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 $94k to $60k (−36%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $23 → $25k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED’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 FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% 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
97% 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 FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 2023 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
97% of FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Organizations like FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED?
- FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,448 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,448 in grants to FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FIRST FLIGHT SOCIETY INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 4 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