Washington · Nonprofit
Mission Aviation Training Academy
Mission Aviation Training Academy (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $961,291 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($759,115). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $961k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Mission Aviation Training Academy does
Mission
To develop, train, and equip pilots for missionary service in remote parts of the world; to encourage and serve missionaries and Bible camps.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Flight training developed, trained and equipped 15 students who are preparing for serving in Christian ministry-- often in remote areas around the world. Summer Camp served 18 campers to introduce them to missionary aviation. MATA's advanced Alaska summer and winter training served 6 students, 2 camps, 8 villages and 120 campers where there are no roads between villages and limited access to remote areas. Without aviation transportation, local Alaskan camp attendees would not be able to attend camp. The Alaska trips also allowed MATA staff to serve several other mission agencies with aircraft maintenance help, speaking, and encouragement. We also sent 2 staff members to a mission in Papua New Guinea to assist with aircraft maintenance. We were the county collection site for the Operation Christmas Child ministry. We helped position equipment to remote ministries. We hosted about 100 kids to introduce them to STEM programs. We also introduced over 200 people to mission aviation at our tri-annual Mission Aviation Awareness Day
$894,961 spentof which $95,799 as grants$151,992 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $894,961.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.3M to $1.6M (−28%).
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.
85% of Mission Aviation Training Academy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% 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
Dary Finck
Executive Director
Board chair
Scott Quist
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $245k → $43k.
5 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 84% 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 Mission Aviation Training Academy’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
Mission Aviation Training Academy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 Mission Aviation Training Academy.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 90% · 2019 80% · 2020 63% · 2021 99% · 2022 64% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
40% of Mission Aviation Training Academy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
84% of Mission Aviation Training Academy's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $151k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $811k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Mission Aviation Training Academy holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Mission Aviation Training Academy
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mission Aviation Training Academy: 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 Mission Aviation Training Academy?
- Mission Aviation Training Academy (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $961,291 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($759,115). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Mission Aviation Training Academy have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $961,291 in grants to Mission Aviation Training Academy, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mission Aviation Training Academy?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $759,115 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mission Aviation Training Academy find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 8 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