Georgia · Nonprofit
TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC
TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,792 to it, the largest being Lattner Family Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $58k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $44k
- Net assets
- $106k
What Tigerflight Foundation Inc does
Mission
Leading Youth to the Dream of Flight and Offering Adults Opportunities to Serve Through Aviation
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
TIGER FLIGHT AVIATION ACADEMY: The TigerFlight Aviation Academy is the hallmark of our aviation youth development effort. Only a year old, in 2025 this program quadrupled in size to nearly 30 youth regularly participating. Meeting alternate Thursdays during the school year from 6:30 to 8 pm, high school age students learn about aviation and careers in aviation. We partner with the Northwest Georgia Technical College Airframe and Powerplant school located on the airport. Each session begins with a learning/lecture period, then a team building exercise and finally a lab for hands-on application of a skill. During the summer months the sessions are dedicated to flight opportunities longer than a typical Young Eagle Flight. Several of the TFAA students have joined the TF Ground Crew.
$10,224 spent25% of program spendingTIGER FLIGHT GROUND CREW In 2025 the Tiger Flight Ground crew directly served youth living in Floyd County, the area around Russell Regional Airport. 4-6 youth regularly participated in specific Ground Crew activities. They also supported TFF Young Eagle Rallies. The TF Ground Crew tow aircraft from the hangar in the morning and help pilots with their preflight. Working under the supervision of a TF Pilot, the TF Ground Crew marshal aircraft in and out of parking and escort guests walking from the hangar to the aircraft and back. When flying is complete for the day, the TF Ground Crew tow the aircraft back in the hangar and help clean the aircraft. Members of the TF Ground Crew regularly have the opportunity to fly with TF pilots and by interacting directly with pilots, learn about the aircraft and aviation in general. The TigerFlight Ground Crew is an integral and critical component of TigerFlight.
$4,090 spent10% of program spendingSCOUTING, AMERICAN HERITAGE, AND TRAIL LIFE AVIATION BADGE CLINC In 2025 TFF hosted two Scouting Aviation Badge Clinics. 12 boys and girls and 6 adults participated in the clinics. The Scouts learned about the physics of flight, aircraft systems, navigation, how to preflight an aircraft, and how an airport operates. Each youth went for a 20-minute flight. TFF conducts these free flights for Scouts within the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Young Eagle program.
$2,045 spent5% of program spendingSATURDAY FREE FLIGHTS: TigerFlight hosts organized youth groups usually on the first Saturday of the month. All flights are part of the Experimental Aircraft Association Young Eagle program. Youth who attend these events enjoy a 20-min aircraft ride and tours of the airport. This is a very popular youth activity. In 2025 we flew 154 youth on Young Eagle Flights.
$16,359 spent40% of program spendingAIRPORT FIELD TRIPS: Tiger Flight airport field trips last about 2 hours. In the first hour we organize the tour with three 15-minute stations for 5-8 youth. 1) We walk around the outside of the aircraft describing how an airfoil produces lift, the parts of the aircraft, and how the flight control surfaces maneuver the plane. 2) Each student sits in the cockpit as we discuss the instruments, how the yoke and rudder pedals move the flight control surfaces, and how the throttle controls the engine. 3) During the airport tour we explain designations and markings for taxiways and runways, legs of the traffic pattern, the automatic weather station, how to interpret the windsock, and time zones around the world. In the second hour we lead them in a competitive activity making foam plate gliders and learning how to adjust the flight control surfaces to maneuver the glider to land on a specific spot and turn and fly through a hoop. Then we finish with a 15-min Pilot in Command of Your Life presentation. In 2025 119 youth attended TigerFlight Airport Field trips.
$4,908 spent12% of program spendingPILOT IN COMMAND OF YOUR LIFE PRESENTATIONS: TF pilots offer these motivational presentations to youth groups and schools. We delivered two "PIC of Your Life" presentations in 2025. These presentations are part of field trips or other youth activities at the TF Hangar. Pilots speak about their experiences in aviation and weave through their path to becoming a pilot. The central themes include: Dream!! It's up to you to Dream and take steps to pursue your Dream. Establish a record of making appropriate decisions, pursue your dreams (not somebody else's). Establish excellence as a way of life, Don't be Good ...Be Great! Make plans to achieve your dreams, think long term, seek leadership opportunities, set short-term goals that lead to your long-term goal. Continually evaluate your progress toward your dream and make adjustments. Don't let short-term setbacks derail your pursuit of your long-term dream. Be resilient in pursing your dream. A dream without a plan is nothing more than a wish. Don't wish, Act!
$2,045 spent5% of program spendingTIGER FLIGHT FORMATION TEAM: In 2025 the TigerFlight Formation Team performed a 2-ship flyover as part of the Veterans Day celebration at the City of Ball Ground, Georgia 4 of the 14 TF pilots make up the TigerFlight Formation Team. 3 of them are former military pilots; 2 were fighter pilots. Each member of the TF Formation Team completed rigorous training and was certified by a Formation and Safety Team (FAST) check pilot. The pilots on the team conduct regular training to maintain their formation proficiency.
$1,227 spent3% of program spendingPRIVATE PILOT LICENSE ORIENTATION: Our objective in the PPLO is to make teenagers competitive for private pilot training scholarships. We focus specifically on the USAF Flight Academy, a free program for AFJROTC cadets to earn a private pilot license over a summer. Cadets attend up to 8 hours of ground school and receive up to 8 hours of inflight training. The instruction is pre-solo training with emphasis on basic aircraft control and understanding airport operations. In 2025 we did not have any youth in our PPLO program
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 8 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $40,898.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $41k to $77k (+86%).
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.
100% of TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $99.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 TIGERFLIGHT 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
TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 62% · 2022 96% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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In Georgia
Nationally
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Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC?
- TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $43,792 to it, the largest being Lattner Family Foundation Inc ($15,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $43,792 in grants to TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC?
- Lattner Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TIGERFLIGHT FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 7 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