Washington · Nonprofit
HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION
HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $36k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Historic Flight Foundation does
Mission
Historic Flight Foundation exists to acquire, preserve and exhibit historically significant air and space artifacts, which provide a foundation for scholarly research and lifelong learning programs that inspire an interest in and understanding of science and technology.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Programs
Aviation-based stem education
$150,000 spent88% of program spendingSpeakers bureau lectures
$20,000 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $170,000.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $35k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $344k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Cleveland Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION’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
HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% 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
63% 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 HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 64% — 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
97% of HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $39k on record.
- Department of Defense$39k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Sessions Family Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION: 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 HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $36,000 to it, the largest being ARTSFUND ($22,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $36,000 in grants to HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION?
- ARTSFUND is the largest funder on record, with $22,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC FLIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), 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