Wisconsin · Nonprofit
Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc
Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,488 to it, the largest being FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION UNDER THE F SILVERMAN CHARITABLE TR ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,524 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Emory T Clark Family Foundationshared funders
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio match
- Wisconsin Humanities Council Incportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $116 → $18k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc’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
Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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
100% of Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $488 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Emory T Clark Family Foundationshared fundersMN · backs 22 organizations that share your funders
- William M & Donna J Hoaglin Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wisconsin Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southwest Minnesota Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Historical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Idaho Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Arts Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nast Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winona Foundation Theportfolio 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.
Organizations like Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
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 Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc: 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 Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc?
- Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc (Wisconsin) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $52,488 to it, the largest being FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION UNDER THE F SILVERMAN CHARITABLE TR ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $52,488 in grants to Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc?
- FRANCIE LUKE SILVERMAN FOUNDATION UNDER THE F SILVERMAN CHARITABLE TR is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Mitchell Gallery of Flight Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2024–2024), 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