Oklahoma · Nonprofit
GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM
GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being WILLIAM S & ANN ATHERTON FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Godspeed Flight Demonstration Team Inc Dba Litespeed Flight Demonstration Team does
Mission
Litespeed airshow is a safe indoor school assembly program that uses stem education to engage and inspire kids.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The litespeed airshow is an aviation-centered stem education program designed for elementary school students. Through the wonders of aviation science, the history of flight, and the inspiring story of the wright brothers, students are encouraged to explore their god-given gifts and talents. The program's mission is to ignite curiosity, foster purpose, and empower young minds to pursue their unique calling and ultimate destiny.
$50,116 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,116.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 $4k to $11k (+154%).
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.
100% of GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $8k → $10k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM’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
GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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
30% 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 GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 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
100% of GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM's grant income comes from Oklahoma funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k 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
GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 10,142 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,142 religion nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM
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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
27%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM?
- GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM (Oklahoma) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being WILLIAM S & ANN ATHERTON FOUNDATION ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $50,000 in grants to GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM?
- WILLIAM S & ANN ATHERTON FOUNDATION 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 GODSPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM INC DBA LITESPEED FLIGHT DEMONSTRATION TEAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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