Colorado · Nonprofit
THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION
THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($38). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $38
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What The Lafayette Foundation does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is the preservation and education of aviation history.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Lafayette Foundation sees over 7000 visitors per year come through our museum where we give guided tours of our collection and displays. Our visitors are also able to view our aircraft collection and see flying demonstrations of the aircraft. It is a one of a kind experience where the public can see the original uniforms, memorabilia, and aircraft of some the world's most famous pilots, from world war I, the golden age of aviation, and world war ii.
$98,577 spent100% of program spendingEvery 3rd weekend in may, the museum holds a spring fly-in, open to the public, with 3-5,000 visitors in attendance. It offers living history demonstrations, free museum tours, quarterly guest speakers, and free flying demonstrations of world war I and world war ii aircraft.
Group tours are offered times per year. They include lunch, museum tour, and a flying deomonstration.
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $98,577.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $2.2M to $2.7M (+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. 5 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 THE LAFAYETTE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE LAFAYETTE 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 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 THE LAFAYETTE 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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION?
- THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $38 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($38). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $38 in grants to THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $38 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAFAYETTE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 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