Kansas · Nonprofit
RED TAIL ACADEMY INC
RED TAIL ACADEMY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,200 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $244k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $267k
- Net assets
- $214k
What Red Tail Academy Inc does
Mission
The Red Tail Academy provides educational, mentor, and direction for underrepresented/served youth in field of aviation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, Red Tail Academy Inc. had great success with our second annual summer aviation camp for ages 10-14. The 26 campers went to the TWA museum, iFly, the Aviation Institute of Maintenance, Whiteman AFB and the international airport. They also flew drones, experienced time in a simulator along with a discovery flight. We kicked off our fifth private pilot ground school this week with six students, while two students from last year's private pilot ground school earned their private pilot certificate. We also completed the first of 18 aviation educational videos that we test ran with the Central Avenue Betterment Association and Jr Police Cadets from the Police Activity League in August. Lastly, we hosted various youth organizations at the downtown airport (MKC), which included guest speakers, airplane displays and simulator flights.
$14,720 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,720.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $11k to $217k (+1936%).
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 RED TAIL ACADEMY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 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
Patrick Nelson
Executive Director
Board chair
Sam White
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $28k → $27k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 RED TAIL ACADEMY 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
RED TAIL ACADEMY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 73% — 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
RED TAIL ACADEMY INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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
RED TAIL ACADEMY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like RED TAIL ACADEMY 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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
37% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RED TAIL ACADEMY INC?
- RED TAIL ACADEMY INC (Kansas) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $267,200 to it, the largest being EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED TAIL ACADEMY INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $267,200 in grants to RED TAIL ACADEMY INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED TAIL ACADEMY INC?
- EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED TAIL ACADEMY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 7 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