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GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC

GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,357 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($203,780). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$794k
Funders on record
37
Grants received
$730k
Net assets
$3.4M
20/37 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 17%
01What it does

What Greater Saint Louis Honor Flight Inc does

Mission

To fly our most senior veterans safely to washington d.c. So they may experience the memorials built in their honor.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The purpose of greater st. Louis honor flight, inc. Is to honor veterans living in the st. Louis area by taking them to see memorials in washington, d.c. Which were built and dedicated in their honor.

    $512,428 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $512,428.

02The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($823k) Expenses 100 ($343k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 94 ($775k) Expenses 113 ($388k) Net assets 114 ($1.8M)2019 Revenue 94 ($778k) Expenses 141 ($483k) Net assets 151 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 56 ($464k) Expenses 75 ($258k) Net assets 179 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 92 ($757k) Expenses 168 ($577k) Net assets 205 ($3.2M)2022 Revenue 90 ($740k) Expenses 196 ($673k) Net assets 174 ($2.7M)2023 Revenue 95 ($783k) Expenses 195 ($669k) Net assets 199 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 96 ($794k) Expenses 198 ($681k) Net assets 218 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (96)Expenses (198)Net assets (218)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $1.8M to $2.4M (+33%).

$1.6M
$1.8M
$2.4M
$2.8M
$3.2M
$2.7M
$3.1M
$3.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

76% of GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$480k
’17
$387k
’18
$295k
’19
$206k
’20
$180k
’21
$67k
’22
$113k
’23
$114k
’24
5.2
months of
reserve

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.

Board chair

Darren James

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1316141414131310
Joined·+3+2+2+0+3+0+1
No longer listed·0420404
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $73k → $84k.

9 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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

GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

66% 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 GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC.

28%
largest funder
45%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 31% · 2019 16% · 2020 66% · 2021 40% · 2022 40% · 2023 35% — growing more concentrated.

“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.

How long its funders stay

32% of GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

56% of GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC'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 $320k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Missouri funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Missouri out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $411k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve5.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

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

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 19%Fundraising 6%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC?
GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC (Missouri) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $730,357 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($203,780). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC have?
IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $730,357 in grants to GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $203,780 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER SAINT LOUIS HONOR FLIGHT INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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