Tennessee · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,259 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $307k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $90k
- Net assets
- $107k
What National Intercollegiate Flying Association does
Mission
The National Intercollegiate Flying Association was formed for the purposes of developing and advancing aviation education; to promote, encourage and foster safety in aviation; to promote and foster communications and cooperation between aviation students, educators, educational institutions and the aviation industry; and to provide an arena for collegiate aviation competition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Conducted flight safety evaluation conferences and airshows throughout the country. These conferences and airshows develop and advance aviation education; promote, encourage and foster safety in aviation; promote and foster communication between aviation students, educators, educational institutions and the aviation industry.
$269,935 spentof which $5,000 as grants$245,640 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $269,935.
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 $189k to $122k (−35%).
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: 2017 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
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
Taylor Newman
Executive director
Board chair
Andrew Ross
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $45k → $4k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION’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 INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 60% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 64% · 2023 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $259 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 26% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION: 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 INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,259 to it, the largest being THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC ($46,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $90,259 in grants to NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION?
- THE AUSTIN E KNOWLTON FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $46,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INTERCOLLEGIATE FLYING ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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