Ohio · Nonprofit
MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY
MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $635,763 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($190,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $746k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $636k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Military Aviation Preservation Society does
Mission
Maintain a military aviation museum for the purposes of actively preserving the historic aircraft, raising community awareness of and educating the public on the history of military aviation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration and preservation of military aircraft and maintenance of an aircraft museum facility for the purpose of displaying historically significant memorials and aircraft displays. The museum is open to the public. Restoration teams, museum guides, facility and equipment maintenance, gift shop attendants and committee leadership are all made up of approximately 205 volunteers who provided service hours of 42,275 during 2025 at no cost to the organization. The finance committee and board of directors are also volunteers who meet each month to review the financial status of endowments, investments and financial reports and museum operations. Work begun in 2023 for display of a signficant donation of artifacts from the bob hope foundation. Flight simulators replaced in the training room with maps funds in 2023. Special project phase I started in 2025 the curator fund was active in upgrading display cases, graphics displays, including tables and chairs for the banquet hall and additional enhancements to the korean/vietnam display with lindh family foundation funds. Roof renovations in restoration building and the main hangar project began in 2020 is now completed in 2024. Power…
$391,488 spent79% of program spendingAircraft restoration, tooling, library and memorial displays for designated museum restorations established for a multipurpose educational facility including hands on aviation related presentations and audio visual programs. Several new displays were completed and updated to with the use of grants from the supporting organizations. Five new aircraft including ov-1, pitts special,f102, f86a and c47 are new additions to the restoration collection during 2019/2020 and restorations are currently underway. In 2021, an f7u naval aircraft was acquired and resotrations are underway. A new restoration project acquired in 2023 for the museum collection c130 hercules aircraft from government surplus. Maps participates in several community events such as parades, picnics, airshows, scouting, veterans programs and ohio national guard food drives. .
$62,881 spent13% of program spendingEducating the public on the history of military aviation and its impact on society. This is accomplished through the operations of the aviation museum for the general public along with specific programs for groups such as high school us history classes, boy scouts, and other such young peoples' organizations. Several veterans programs and special celebrations are also held each year. Maps charters a cub scout group and sponsors special group events for the all age scouts. Museum membership includes 267 lifetime memberships. Education programs are supported with grant funds louise timken foundation, akron community foundation and many other private donors and foundations. Maps offers opportunities for students with internships and field trips for school groups to tour the museum and is also involved in community service projects throughout the year.
$39,938 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $494,307.
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.
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 $2.3M to $2.6M (+14%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY’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 6 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.
Board chair
Dennis Bachtel
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $87k → $27k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY’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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 67% · 2019 40% · 2020 65% · 2021 81% · 2022 58% · 2023 41% — 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
45% of MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
100% of MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k 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 PRESERVATION SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY?
- MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY (Ohio) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $635,763 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($190,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $635,763 in grants to MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY?
- TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MILITARY AVIATION PRESERVATION SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing