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Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc

Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,409 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND MARY LEE DUTHIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$408k
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$341k
Net assets
$652k
9/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc does

Mission

Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter, Inc. transports America's Veterans who served between 1941 and 1975, to Washington DC, to visit memorials dedicated to honor their sacrifices. The WWII, Korea, Cold War, and Vietnam Veterans make the trips at no cost to them.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter, Inc., in two Mission Flights, transported approximately 163 Veterans to Washington, DC to visit those memorials dedicated to honor their sacrifices. The Veterans were safely transported utilizing an estimated 10,000 hours or more of volunteer service. In addition, 7 WWII Veterans were flown on WWII B-25 Bomber on 2 flights around Louisville, and 3 WWII Veterans on two flights around Russellville, KY. All done at no cost to the Veterans.

    $275,762 spent$384,475 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $275,762.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($184k) Expenses 100 ($33k) Net assets 100 ($393k)2021 Revenue 76 ($140k) Expenses 423 ($139k) Net assets 100 ($394k)2022 Revenue 133 ($245k) Expenses 1161 ($381k) Net assets 66 ($258k)2023 Revenue 175 ($322k) Expenses 644 ($211k) Net assets 94 ($369k)2024 Revenue 232 ($428k) Expenses 807 ($265k) Net assets 135 ($532k)2025 Revenue 222 ($408k) Expenses 877 ($288k) Net assets 166 ($652k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (222)Expenses (877)Net assets (166)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 2023 to 2024, from $369k to $532k (+44%).

$393k
$394k
$258k
$369k
$532k
$652k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 1% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,561 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$151k
’20
$1k
’21
−$136k
’22
$111k
’23
$163k
’24
$121k
’25
27
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed222118161515
Joined·+0+2+2+3+1
No longer listed·15441
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $21k → $43k.

4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter 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

Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

61% 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 Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc.

29%
largest funder
71%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 32% · 2019 29% · 2020 46% · 2021 58% · 2022 91% · 2023 46% — 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.

How long its funders stay

38% of Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

75% of Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

WI
NY
CT
MO
KY
VA
NC

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.

Operating margin30% · top quartile
Months of reserve27.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc?
Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc (Kentucky) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $341,409 to it, the largest being GEORGE AND MARY LEE DUTHIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $341,409 in grants to Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc?
GEORGE AND MARY LEE DUTHIE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 17 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