California · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,968 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,868). 1 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 FY2025
- $670k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Society of Experimental Test Pilots Scholarship Foundation does
Mission
The primary purpose of the scholaship fdn is to receive, acquire, manage, administer, & expend property & funds for scholarships & other forms of educational assistance to children of society members, with emphasis given to children of deceased & disabled society members. A scholarship was first awarded in 1967. Since that time over 5.3 million has been granted in educational assistance to over 600 students. In 2025 144 students attended school with scholarship fdn assistance. For every dollar contributed, more than 95% goes directly to cover the students' educational expenses. A contribution to the scholarship fdn is the ideal way to commermorate a society member while helping support children of society members
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Not described on the e-filed return.
$326,417 spentof which $314,343 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,417.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $8.7M to $6.8M (−22%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
J Fergione
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $706 → $541.
1 of 2 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 SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION’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
SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside California, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3k 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.
Organizations like SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Society of Experimental Test Pilots · exempt
- Setp Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: 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 SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,968 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($2,868). 1 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 SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,968 in grants to SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,868 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2019–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing