Washington · Nonprofit
RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY
RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,819 to it, the largest being SEATTLE PROF ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES ASSN DBA SOC OF PROF ENG EMPL IN AEROSPACE ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $513k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $74k
- Net assets
- $933k
What Red-Tailed Hawks Aviation Academy does
Mission
To introduce the underserved and underrepresented to the world of aviation and teach them to fly.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Red-Tailed Hawks Aviation Academy (RTHAA) operated with two airplanes in service and provided 453 hours of flight training. RTHAA donated 143 flight hours to nine youth student pilots during Red-Tailed Hawks FLY. RTHAA donated 156 flight hours to youth student pilots in pursuit of pilot certificates and ratings. RTHAA donated 302 free discovery flights to youths. RTHAA supported 22 members in flight training and produced four pilot certificates and three pilot ratings. RTHAA provided $10000 to the Jasper Harris, Jr. Aviation Scholarship fund.
$283,734 spentof which $20,000 as grants$513,445 earned by the program100% of program spendingSee summary under first program service accomplishment - all amounts recorded there.
$0 spent0% of program spendingSee statement recorded under first program service accomplishment - all amounts recorded there.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $283,734.
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 2024 to 2025, from $542k to $933k (+72%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 40% · 2024 42% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $21k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY’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-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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 RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 60% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $34k 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
RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY: 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 RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY?
- RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $73,819 to it, the largest being SEATTLE PROF ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES ASSN DBA SOC OF PROF ENG EMPL IN AEROSPACE ($40,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $73,819 in grants to RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY?
- SEATTLE PROF ENGINEERING EMPLOYEES ASSN DBA SOC OF PROF ENG EMPL IN AEROSPACE is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED-TAILED HAWKS AVIATION ACADEMY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2021–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing