Virginia · Nonprofit
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,722 to it, the largest being Kenneth A Hall and Patricia A Hall Charitable Foundation ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcushared funders
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio match
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2021 11% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $122k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.0M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Military Aviation Museum Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM’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
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 98% · 2022 46% · 2023 82% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.
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
94% of MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Langley for Families - the Foundation of Lfcushared fundersVA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pritzker Military Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of the United States Armyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emil Buehler Perpetual Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anders Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shaara Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Society Daughters of the American Revolutionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Blocker Foundationshared fundersVA · backs 70 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7k on record.
- Department of Defense$7k
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 MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Military Aviation Museum Foundation · exempt
- Tsi Holdco Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM?
- MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM (Virginia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $309,722 to it, the largest being Kenneth A Hall and Patricia A Hall Charitable Foundation ($200,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $309,722 in grants to MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM?
- Kenneth A Hall and Patricia A Hall Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 13funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing