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The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,230 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($375,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$4.1M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$545k
Net assets
$3.1M
5/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum does

Mission

The organization is an operational repository of the Tuskegee Airmens history and artifacts while providing an active learning community through classroom and hands-on aviation and aerospace engineering programs.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Youth Programs - The organization continued to invest in educational exhibits, youth classes and outreach services.

    $1,178,358 spent$10,025 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,178,358.

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 ($257k) Expenses 100 ($111k) Net assets 100 ($462k)2018 Revenue 265 ($682k) Expenses 488 ($542k) Net assets 108 ($501k)2019 Revenue 635 ($1.6M) Expenses 1312 ($1.5M) Net assets 158 ($728k)2020 Revenue 819 ($2.1M) Expenses 1229 ($1.4M) Net assets 319 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 1324 ($3.4M) Expenses 2306 ($2.6M) Net assets 523 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 703 ($1.8M) Expenses 1653 ($1.8M) Net assets 494 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 898 ($2.3M) Expenses 1982 ($2.2M) Net assets 518 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 1096 ($2.8M) Expenses 2592 ($2.9M) Net assets 519 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 1610 ($4.1M) Expenses 3037 ($3.4M) Net assets 674 ($3.1M)
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Revenue (1610)Expenses (3037)Net assets (674)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.5M (+67%).

$466k
$571k
$810k
$1.5M
$2.5M
$2.6M
$2.7M
$2.7M
$3.3M
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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: 2018 44% · 2023 10% · 2024 10% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$146k
’17
$139k
’18
$178k
’19
$744k
’20
$847k
’21
−$26k
’22
$111k
’23
−$60k
’24
$772k
’25
4.3
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.

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Listed78881013131314
Joined·+1+0+2+4+4+0+0+1
No longer listed·00221000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $50k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Tuskegee Airmen National Historical 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

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

28% 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 The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum.

69%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 64% · 2022 71% · 2023 80% — 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

29% of The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% 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

97% of The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

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

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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

The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · above the median
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)42% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $500k on record.

Federal$500k
grants $500kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Transportation$500k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

35% of spending goes to programs.

Program 35%Management 13%Fundraising 52%

Governance

14
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum?
The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum (Michigan) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $545,230 to it, the largest being FORD PHILANTHROPY ($375,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $545,230 in grants to The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum?
FORD PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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