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SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC

SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,595 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($45,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$11M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$178k
Net assets
$13M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Sun 'N Fun Fly-In Inc does

Mission

To preserve and enhance the future of flight through world-class events, inspiring and educating people of all ages.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Host to the second-largest aviation fly-in and convention in the country. During the convention, there are over 400 forums, workshops, lectures, and other educational opportunities. Approximately 200,000 attendees, including gate participants, exhibitors, sponsors, and food vendors. Over 5,000 aircraft fly in, including warbirds, military, home-built, and vintage planes. Supported by approximately 3,000 volunteers.

    $9,400,328 spentof which $1,348,377 as grants$11,179,891 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,400,328.

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 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.8M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 104 ($5.8M) Expenses 110 ($5.3M) Net assets 105 ($12M)2019 Revenue 113 ($6.3M) Expenses 120 ($5.7M) Net assets 110 ($12M)2020 Revenue 29 ($1.6M) Expenses 60 ($2.9M) Net assets 46 ($5.1M)2021 Revenue 132 ($7.4M) Expenses 88 ($4.2M) Net assets 78 ($8.6M)2022 Revenue 152 ($8.5M) Expenses 110 ($5.3M) Net assets 106 ($12M)2023 Revenue 168 ($9.4M) Expenses 143 ($6.8M) Net assets 130 ($14M)2024 Revenue 178 ($10.0M) Expenses 189 ($9.0M) Net assets 104 ($12M)2025 Revenue 198 ($11M) Expenses 205 ($9.8M) Net assets 116 ($13M)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (205)Net assets (116)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 $14M to $7.8M (−45%).

$13M
$13M
$14M
$7.8M
$10M
$13M
$19M
$16M
$18M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

1% of SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 812 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$809k
’17
$544k
’18
$582k
’19
−$1.3M
’20
$3.2M
’21
$3.2M
’22
$2.6M
’23
$937k
’24
$1.3M
’25
2.6
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

Eugene Conrad

President/CEO

Board chair

Harley Richards

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed25222016127777
Joined·+0+3+1+1+3+0+4+2
No longer listed·35558042
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $11k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 funders by total. 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

SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

81% 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 SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC.

25%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 42% · 2021 70% · 2022 54% · 2023 28% — 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

40% of SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

86% of SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

CT
MO
NC
FL

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k 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

SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 550 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

Government funding SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1k on record.

State$1k
Top programs
  • UTILITIES - ELECTRICITY $1k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC

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 Florida

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Elevate Aerospace & Logistics Incubator Inc · exempt
  • Central Florida Aerospace Academy Foundation Inc · exempt
  • Aerospace Center for Excellence Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC?
SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC (Florida) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,595 to it, the largest being United Way of Central Florida Inc ($45,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $177,595 in grants to SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC?
United Way of Central Florida Inc is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SUN 'N FUN FLY-IN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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