Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC
NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $43M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $140k
- Net assets
- $26M
What National Business Aviation Association Inc does
Mission
To foster an environment that allows business aviation to thrive in the united states and around the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Nbaa's business aviation convention and exhibition (nbaa-bace) provides an unsurpassed opportunity for the show's 18,000 attendees to view the largest display of business aviation exhibits in the world, and attend a series of forums for information sharing and networking with peers. This gathering of business aviation professionals, in which business aircraft management, operations, maintenance, budgeting and products are covered exhaustively, is the single-most important business aviation event of the year.
Conference and seminar programs. The association offers a comprehensive program of information seminars, conferences and workshops for flight department personnel. All job functions, including schedulers, dispatchers, flight attendants, maintenance managers, technicians, chief pilots and aviation department managers are covered. The conferences and seminars address current industry trends and issues as well as basic hands-on information for the successful day-to-day operation of a company's flight department.
Operations services: nbaa is the leading authority for the production and dissemination of resources to inform and support members' use of a general aviation aircraft, on matters related to regulatory policies, safety best guidance, flight department management, aircraft transactions and other matters. Safety - review industry statistics, read safety references or submit anonymous reports on safety concerns or incidents. Security - information on new and pending security regulations and the new transportation security. Administration (tsa) - information for flight dept. Managers, including the full text of the nbaa management guide. Tax, finance & insurance - information on financial issues such as fed/state taxes, ramifications of the personal use of employer provided aircraft, carriage of elected officials and aviation insurance. Maintenance - guidance for maintenance personnel and a wealth of technical information in the maintenance reports database. Airports - nbaa references for airport issues. Airspace/air traffic - nbaa references for airspace/air traffic issues. International operations - documents and online resources for flying outside of the united states. Members can…
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $0.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $52M to $40M (−23%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Edward Bolen
President/CEO/director
Board chair
John Witzig
Board chair and director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $90k → $50k.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC’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
NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% — broadly stable.
“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
NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Government funding NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26k on record — $25k federal, $545 state.
- Department of Energy$25k
- Membership in Organizations$545
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 NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Nbaa-Abace China Limited · disregarded
- Abace LLC · disregarded
- Nbaa Charities · exempt
- Nbaa Political Action Committee · exempt
- Ebace LLC · partnership
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC: 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 NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $140,000 to it, the largest being AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION ($90,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $140,000 in grants to NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- AIRCRAFT OWNERS & PILOTS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $90,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL BUSINESS AVIATION ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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