Virginia · Nonprofit
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,147 to it, the largest being KENNETH A HALL AND PATRICIA A HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $342k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Military Aviation Museum does
Mission
The Military Aviation Museum honors the heroes who built, flew and maintained america's military aircraft. By sharing their stories through exhibitions and events, we promote an understanding of history, science, service and sacrifice that will inspire and educate visitors of all ages.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To educate the public on the history of military aviation from the first half of the twentieth century. It accomplishes this by operating a museum open to the public seven days a week year-round (excluding thanksgiving day and christmas day). Visitors can see the restored and replica aircraft up close on static display and learn about their personal histories and uses during the wars by reading signage and talking with volunteer museum docents.
$1,889,197 spent$1,145,763 earned by the program96% of program spendingOne of the interactive ways the museum educates the public on the historic military aircraft is by hosting two air shows each year. The spring air show features an authentic, restored world war two aircraft flying and on static display. The fall air show features a replica world war one aircraft flying and on static display. Both events also include military re-enactors from the different periods in history, who interact with attendees and talk about what the pilots, ground crew, and other soldiers endured during the wars.
$76,158 spent$374,673 earned by the program4% of program spendingThe museum also offers a monthly guest speaker series to the public, which is free with paid museum admission. Each month, different retired military personnel give a talk about his or her experiences with military aviation during world war two and immediately following. These presentations give visitors an opportunity to know the history more intimately by way of the personal stories told by pilots, navigators, gunners, ground crew and trainers. The museum typically follows the lecture with a flight demonstration of one of the museum's aircraft.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,965,355.
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.
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 $2.8M to $4.0M (+45%).
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 (63% 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
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
Keegan Chetwynd
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $500 → $122k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM.
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; 56% 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
87% 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. $28k 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.
Against its field
MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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
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 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
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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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM?
- MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM (Virginia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $342,147 to it, the largest being KENNETH A HALL AND PATRICIA A HALL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($200,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $342,147 in grants to MILITARY AVIATION MUSEUM, 9 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.
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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 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing