Vermont · Nonprofit
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,488 to it, the largest being LARSEN FUND ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $320k
What Flight Experience for Youth does
Mission
Flight Experience for Youth (fefy) funds flight, ground school and aviation experience for young people age 21 and under, eager to learn to fly. 1) fefy funds several youth focused programs at sugarbush soaring, including line crew and work to fly, lets young people earn credits toward instructional and solo glider flights, while learning critical thinking and leadership skills. Fefy also pays for faa certified test for members. 2) scholarships, fefy funds scholarships for youth soaring camps, advanced training toward faa commercial flights and instructor certificates. 3) sugarbush soaring youth annual dues, full membership and privileges at sugarbush soaring at a discounted rate.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
As detailed in statement of exempt purpose
$90,490 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $90,490.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $293k to $330k (+12%).
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.
54% of FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $2k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH’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
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 56% · 2020 99% · 2021 88% · 2022 45% · 2023 66% — 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.
Where its funders are
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $243 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.
Against its field
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH has grown faster than half of the 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,011 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH
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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH: 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 FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH?
- FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,488 to it, the largest being LARSEN FUND ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $118,488 in grants to FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH?
- LARSEN FUND is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FLIGHT EXPERIENCE FOR YOUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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