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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,200 to it, the largest being GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($61,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$10M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$61k
Net assets
$14M
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading does

Mission

Provide members with the highest quality and best-value networking and education opportunities in commercial aviation, administering the industry's leading appraiser program, and investing in the future.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Conferences - istat hosts annual conferences in north america, asia, europe and latin america to provide members educational forums and networking opportunities.

  2. Air show and holiday receptions - istat hosts annual receptions in conjunction with major airshows and around the holidays to provide networking opportunities for its members.

  3. Educational and research - istat promotes education and research by investing in the future through grants to the istat foundation in support of individuals and institutions that promote the advancement of commercial aviation and humanitarianism.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.6M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 109 ($8.3M) Expenses 115 ($7.2M) Net assets 101 ($11M)2019 Revenue 123 ($9.3M) Expenses 128 ($8.0M) Net assets 121 ($13M)2020 Revenue 62 ($4.7M) Expenses 94 ($5.9M) Net assets 119 ($13M)2021 Revenue 83 ($6.3M) Expenses 99 ($6.2M) Net assets 124 ($13M)2022 Revenue 98 ($7.4M) Expenses 129 ($8.1M) Net assets 101 ($11M)2023 Revenue 137 ($10M) Expenses 155 ($9.7M) Net assets 119 ($13M)2024 Revenue 133 ($10M) Expenses 155 ($9.7M) Net assets 132 ($14M)
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Revenue (133)Expenses (155)Net assets (132)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $13M (−20%).

$13M
$12M
$15M
$14M
$16M
$13M
$15M
$17M
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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

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.3M
’17
$1.1M
’18
$1.3M
’19
−$1.2M
’20
$97k
’21
−$678k
’22
$759k
’23
$432k
’24
5.0
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.

Chief executive

Guilherme Lopes

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.

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Listed2022202221132020
Joined·+5+4+5+3+1+7+1
No longer listed·3634901
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING’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.

Where its funders are

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

FL

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING

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 Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Istat Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING?
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $61,200 to it, the largest being GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($61,200). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $61,200 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING?
GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $61,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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