New York · Nonprofit
THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC
THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,462 to it, the largest being GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($440,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $808k
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What The Wings Club Foundation Inc does
Mission
To foster educational opportunities for students pursuing an education in aviation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Presented monthly aviation leader series educational luncheon events. Each luncheon features a presentation by an aviation industry leader. Wings club members, guests, and college students attend the events. The wings club presented ten of these events during the fiscal year.
$773,674 spent$271,250 earned by the program56% of program spendingAwarded eighteen student scholarships.
$563,441 spentof which $265,000 as grants41% of program spendingThe wings club foundation makes an annual grant to a charitable organization that uses aircraft to provide medical supplies and personnel and other humanitarian aid and services.
$53,129 spentof which $25,000 as grants4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,390,244.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $7.2M to $9.2M (+27%).
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: 2021 10% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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.
Chief executive
Thomas Fitzsimmons
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $35k → $55k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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: $106k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the National Capital Area). These are real filings, and they are not money THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC’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 WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 78% · 2022 74% · 2023 89% — 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
20% of THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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 WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 50 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC?
- THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $808,462 to it, the largest being GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC ($440,850). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $808,462 in grants to THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC?
- GA TELESIS CHARITABLE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $440,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WINGS CLUB FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 14 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