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Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives

Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $136,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC ($136,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$622k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$136k
Net assets
$284k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives does

Mission

To advance excellence in airport management through communication, professional development, and advocacy. We are a network of aviation professionals dedicated to integrity, credibility and ethical behavior, diversity, inclusiveness, and transparency, collaboration and sharing knowledge, and elevating our members.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. For the 2024-2025 fiscal year, southwest chapter had a successful summer and winter conference for airport representatives from several states. Our membership also increased during the fiscal year. We continued our workshops for our members, including online news and resources to benefit the aviation industry. We used a portion of our revenue to reward three deserving scholars with monetary scholarships totaling 4,500. We provided grants of 10,000 to aaae relief foundation and 7,500 to aaae foundation for support. We also sponsored 7,500 to aaae foundation, 2,500 to aaae events, and 2,500 for their annual conference. For our newly created foundation, swaaae foundation, we granted 35,285 in support.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($109k) Expenses 100 ($86k) Net assets 100 ($216k)2022 Revenue 387 ($422k) Expenses 422 ($361k) Net assets 128 ($276k)2023 Revenue 428 ($466k) Expenses 519 ($444k) Net assets 139 ($299k)2024 Revenue 408 ($444k) Expenses 562 ($481k) Net assets 122 ($263k)2025 Revenue 571 ($622k) Expenses 702 ($600k) Net assets 132 ($284k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (571)Expenses (702)Net assets (132)

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 $327k to $510k (+56%).

$327k
$510k
$459k
$456k
$552k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$23k
’21
$61k
’22
$23k
’23
−$36k
’24
$21k
’25
5.8
months of
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

Cathy Herring

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed1214141420
Joined·+7+1+4+9
No longer listed·5143
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $28k → $20k.

Funder
'19
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives’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

Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.

VA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’21
’22
’23
Arizona out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

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In Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives?
Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives (Arizona) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $136,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC ($136,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $136,000 in grants to Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives?
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF AIRPORT EXECUTIVES INC is the largest funder on record, with $136,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Southwest Chapter American Assoc of Airport Executives find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 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