Texas · Nonprofit
PGM AVIATION INC
PGM AVIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,425 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($183,757). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $100k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $200k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Pgm Aviation Inc does
Mission
To restore and fly historic aircraft at airshows around the country to highlight the history and sacrifice of the servicemen who flew and serviced them.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our main efforts have been with the douglas b-26k/a-26a, which was a type used during the vietnam conflict of the 1960s. This aircraft is the last survivor of its kind that is still airworthy. It will be used to bring attention to a highly classified mission conducted at night over laos to interdict supply convoys coming from north vietnam to the south via the infamous ho chi minh trail. The success of the 609th special operations squadron could not be publicized at the time until it was declassified in 1992. We want to bring this history to airshows so that younger americans will realize what it takes to defend our democracy and honor those who sacrificed so much in the way of blood, sweat and tears.our programs are centered around the care of two leased aircraft: the a-26 and the t-33, first air jet trainer of the us airforce in 1948. These are restored and maintained in better than new condition. They are then displayed in the vintage flying museum in fort worth, texas, and at airshows across the country. We provide maintenance instruction opportunities for young students to learn the mechanic trade as well as giving a scholarship to one toward the completion of a&p school to…
$124,767 spentof which $204 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $124,767.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $25k to $156k (+533%).
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.
100% of PGM AVIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $60k → $43k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 PGM 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
PGM AVIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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 PGM AVIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 90% · 2022 60% · 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.
Where its funders are
97% of PGM AVIATION INC'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k 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
PGM AVIATION INC's revenue fell 23% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government funding PGM AVIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19k on record.
- Department of Defense$19k
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 PGM AVIATION 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PGM 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PGM AVIATION INC?
- PGM AVIATION INC (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $200,425 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($183,757). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PGM AVIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $200,425 in grants to PGM AVIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PGM AVIATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $183,757 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PGM AVIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 4 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