Texas · Nonprofit
THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE
THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE (Texas) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,417,638 to it, the largest being RAY FOUNDATION INC ($3,656,391). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio match
- Air Line Pilots Association Internationalportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 3% · 2021 3% · 2022 0% · 2023 3% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 57 funders, grant income rose $378k → $936k.
26 of 153 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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: $385k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Airpower Heritage Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 153 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
THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 29% · 2019 84% · 2020 14% · 2021 23% · 2022 15% · 2023 37% — growing more concentrated.
“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
27% of THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
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
THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 31 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 153 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 166 organizations that share your funders
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Air Line Pilots Association Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mark E Bryant Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pritzker Military Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 90 organizations that share your funders
- United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Incshared fundersTX · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Givinga Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 92 organizations that share your funders
- Dallas Jewish Community Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 112 organizations that share your funders
- America's Charitiesshared fundersVA · backs 151 organizations that share your funders
- Tiaa Charitable Incshared fundersNC · backs 130 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record.
- Department of Defense$5.7M
- Department of Transportation$110k
- Department of the Interior$6k
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 THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- American Airpower Heritage Museum · exempt
- American Airpower Heritage Foundation · exempt
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE?
- THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE (Texas) receives grants from 153 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,417,638 to it, the largest being RAY FOUNDATION INC ($3,656,391). 81 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE have?
- IRS filings report 153 organizations giving $7,417,638 in grants to THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE, 81 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE?
- RAY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,656,391 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 153funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing