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TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION

TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $204 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($204). 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 FY2025
$389k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$204
Net assets
$565k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Tripoli Rocketry Association does

Mission

Tripoli Rocketry Association is dedicated to education, advancement and safe operation of amateur high-power rocketry.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Publication of the association's journals "high power rocketry, and tripoli report" on online forums, rocket motor testing and certification, and member certification of approximately 400 members.

    $209,072 spentof which $16,767 as grants$1,070 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $209,072.

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 ($237k) Expenses 100 ($223k) Net assets 100 ($315k)2018 Revenue 98 ($232k) Expenses 52 ($116k) Net assets 137 ($431k)2019 Revenue 104 ($246k) Expenses 155 ($345k) Net assets 105 ($332k)2020 Revenue 91 ($217k) Expenses 100 ($222k) Net assets 104 ($327k)2021 Revenue 106 ($251k) Expenses 135 ($302k) Net assets 88 ($277k)2022 Revenue 122 ($290k) Expenses 84 ($188k) Net assets 120 ($378k)2023 Revenue 133 ($315k) Expenses 130 ($289k) Net assets 128 ($404k)2024 Revenue 155 ($368k) Expenses 134 ($299k) Net assets 150 ($472k)2025 Revenue 164 ($389k) Expenses 137 ($306k) Net assets 179 ($565k)
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Revenue (164)Expenses (137)Net assets (179)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 2017 to 2018, from $315k to $431k (+37%).

$315k
$431k
$332k
$327k
$277k
$378k
$404k
$472k
$565k
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,446 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$14k
’17
$116k
’18
−$99k
’19
−$5k
’20
−$51k
’21
$101k
’22
$26k
’23
$68k
’24
$83k
’25
16
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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Joined·+2+0+2+1+0+1+2+3
No longer listed·20210123
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $12 → $86.

Funder
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funders
1
1
1
1

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 TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION’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 TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION'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. $204 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve16.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

68% of spending goes to programs.

Program 68%Management 32%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
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 51 states

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION: 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 TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION?
TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $204 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($204). 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 TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $204 in grants to TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $204 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRIPOLI ROCKETRY ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 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