Michigan · Nonprofit
LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER
LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,350 to it, the largest being The Broad Family Foundation ($42,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $94k
- Net assets
- $-1406405
What Legacy Aviation Learning Center does
Mission
Legacy Aviation Learning Center is primarily organized to operate a faa certified part 147 aircraft mechanic technician school (amts) and serve the general aviation community as a hub for continuing education; sponsoring the experimental aircaft assocation (eaa), eaa young eagles, and the civil air patrol (cap). Legacy aviation was created to be a wolrd-class amt school.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Program
Sponsoring the facilities for the operation of the experimental aircraft association and the civil air patrol chapters in the traverse city area, with an average monthly attendance of 100 unique individuals, spanning ages 8-80 years old, learning about and advancing careers in aviation. Securing an faa certificate lalt669k to operate an aviation maintenance technician school. We are a non-profit school with tuition and fees only covering operating expenses necessary to deliver a world-class student experience.
$1,185,738 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,185,738.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2024 to 2025, from $608k to $316k (−48%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2023 65% · 2024 1% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Peter Lane
CEO
Board chair
Dan Jonkhoff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER’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
LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER.
“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 LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER has grown faster than half of the 88 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 88 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2026
Organizations like LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER: 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 LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER?
- LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,350 to it, the largest being The Broad Family Foundation ($42,350). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $94,350 in grants to LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER?
- The Broad Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $42,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGACY AVIATION LEARNING CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2023–2026), and the filings of 4 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