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NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,715,074 to it, the largest being SLATTERY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,290,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.2M
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
$6.7M
Grants received
$8.0M
Net assets
9/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%

Against its field

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin51% · top quartile
Months of reserve19.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)19% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($644k) Expenses 100 ($646k) Net assets 100 ($1.2M)2018 Revenue 931 ($6.0M) Expenses 112 ($722k) Net assets 529 ($6.5M)2019 Revenue 146 ($941k) Expenses 126 ($816k) Net assets 539 ($6.6M)2020 Revenue 69 ($444k) Expenses 164 ($1.1M) Net assets 489 ($6.0M)2021 Revenue 200 ($1.3M) Expenses 136 ($882k) Net assets 523 ($6.4M)2022 Revenue 177 ($1.1M) Expenses 183 ($1.2M) Net assets 519 ($6.4M)2023 Revenue 253 ($1.6M) Expenses 166 ($1.1M) Net assets 564 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 341 ($2.2M) Expenses 167 ($1.1M) Net assets 655 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (341)Expenses (167)Net assets (655)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 22% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

55% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
17
$5.3M
18
$125k
19
$616k
20
$408k
21
$42k
22
$552k
23
$1.1M
24
20
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $181k → $10k.

5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)3% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greatest Generation Naval Museum). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC raised.

From the IRS filings of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION 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 MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

79%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 98% · 2021 81% · 2022 44% · 2023 79%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

33% of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 9 states in all.

MN
IL
NY
NJ
CO
KS
OK
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Colorado

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
20%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CO

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Greatest Generation Naval Museum · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC?
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC (Colorado) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,715,074 to it, the largest being SLATTERY FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,290,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $6,715,074 in grants to NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC?
SLATTERY FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,290,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing