Minnesota · Nonprofit
SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION
SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being RAY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $23k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $53k
What Soaring Flight Education Association does
Mission
The Soaring Flight Education Association (SFEA) provides funding to teens and adults between the ages of 14 and 24 to further their education and interest in aviation. The SFEA funds initial glider flight training, solo flights, advanced glider training along with associated examinations and flight tests.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In our first year of operation the SFEA solicited and received cash donations and a matching grant of $25,000. We awarded flight scholarships of up to $1,000 to three teenagers. We are continuing our fundraising efforts in order to qualify for the matching grant.
$0 spentof which $1,750 as grantsIn fiscal year ending 8/31/2023, we provided over $10,000 in scholarship grants to seven high school age youth for flight instruction.
$0 spentof which $11,435 as grantsDuring the fiscal year ending 8/31/2024, the SFEA purchased and installed an advanced Glider Flight Simulator consisting of cockpit seating and controls, three video monitors, a gaming computer and Condor Glider Flight Simulator Software. In the first season the simulator was used for training specific, repeatable flight scenarios. Flight instructors considered it an excellent device to continue flight training during inclement weather. We provided financial and mentor support to seven youth for their flight training. Three of the young people accomplished their first solo, flying the aircraft with no one else in the plane. This is a major flight training accomplishment and a memorable life experience for them.
$0 spentof which $17,804 as grantsThis year we continued to support student aviation training for a total of ten students. Of these there were three new students. We expanded our scholarship program to include students at an additional training site. All but one of our students have completed initial flight training with solo flights and most have received their FAA private pilots license. Three have started university aviation career programs.
$0 spentof which $16,730 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 2022 to 2023, from $28k to $44k (+60%).
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.
97% of SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION 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.
Where its funders are
SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
97%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being RAY FOUNDATION INC ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION?
- RAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOARING FLIGHT EDUCATION ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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