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STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,875,157 to it, the largest being WALTER SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,148,475). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$4.7M
Funders on record
29
Grants received
$5.9M
Net assets
$15M
12/29 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 52%
01What it does

What Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum does

Mission

The mission of the sac museum is to celebrate our heritage, preserve our artifacts, and inspire learning.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Services, education and exhibits for visitors of the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.

    $779,078 spent$1,994,293 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $779,078.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.5M) Net assets 100 ($18M)2018 Revenue 95 ($2.1M) Expenses 112 ($2.8M) Net assets 96 ($17M)2019 Revenue 99 ($2.2M) Expenses 118 ($3.0M) Net assets 92 ($16M)2020 Revenue 63 ($1.4M) Expenses 114 ($2.9M) Net assets 84 ($15M)2021 Revenue 145 ($3.2M) Expenses 144 ($3.6M) Net assets 81 ($15M)2022 Revenue 193 ($4.3M) Expenses 166 ($4.2M) Net assets 83 ($15M)2023 Revenue 202 ($4.5M) Expenses 170 ($4.3M) Net assets 84 ($15M)2024 Revenue 210 ($4.7M) Expenses 191 ($4.8M) Net assets 83 ($15M)
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Revenue (210)Expenses (191)Net assets (83)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $17M to $16M (−8%).

$19M
$18M
$17M
$16M
$15M
$15M
$16M
$15M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 26% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

53% of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$302k
’17
−$716k
’18
−$768k
’19
−$1.5M
’20
−$423k
’21
$99k
’22
$205k
’23
−$162k
’24
3.7
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

Clayton Anderson

President/CEO

Board chair

Calvin Sisson

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed12131213131655
Joined·+3+2+1+0+3+0+0
No longer listed·23000110
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $188k → $2.3M.

3 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $431k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Strategic Air & Space Museum Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM raised.

From the IRS filings of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM’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

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

71%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 50% · 2019 65% · 2020 31% · 2021 36% · 2022 91% · 2023 65% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.

MI
NY
IA
NE
DE
TX

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

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’23
Nebraska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $232k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM has grown faster than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve3.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM

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 Nebraska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

57% of spending goes to programs.

Program 57%Management 39%Fundraising 4%

Governance

4
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Strategic Air and Space Museum Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM?
STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM (Nebraska) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,875,157 to it, the largest being WALTER SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,148,475). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM have?
IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $5,875,157 in grants to STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM?
WALTER SCOTT FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,148,475 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STRATEGIC AIR COMMAND & AEROSPACE MUSEUM find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 29 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