California · Nonprofit
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,134 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($309,559). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $39M
- Funders on record
- 38
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $111M
What Uss Midway Museum does
Mission
To preserve the historic uss midway and the legacy of those who serve, inspire and educate future generations, and entertain museum guests.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Uss Midway Museum is a dynamic nonprofit naval aviation museum whose program elements include educational curriculum and class visits for more than 40,000 students annually; an active sleepover program for youth groups; ongoing development of naval aviation exhibits; hosting more than 250 private events a year; managing an active volunteer corps in excess of 850; and providing necessary program safety and security.the museum is a regional resource for a variety of nonprofit organizations, including education, and regularly hosts community, business, and civic events. Its vision is to be america's living symbol of freedom.
$30,190,733 spentof which $660,576 as grants$33,130,685 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $30,190,733.
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 2020 to 2021, from $90M to $107M (+19%).
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 16% · 2022 16% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of USS MIDWAY MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Radm Terry Kraft
President & CEO
Board chair
John Driscoll Cma
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 12 funders, grant income rose $84k → $192k.
7 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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: $678k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The San Diego Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money USS MIDWAY MUSEUM raised.
From the IRS filings of USS MIDWAY MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 USS MIDWAY MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 26% · 2019 45% · 2020 71% · 2021 34% · 2022 24% · 2023 52% — 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
33% of USS MIDWAY MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
63% of USS MIDWAY MUSEUM's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $625k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
USS MIDWAY MUSEUM is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like USS MIDWAY MUSEUM
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for USS MIDWAY MUSEUM: 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 USS MIDWAY MUSEUM?
- USS MIDWAY MUSEUM (California) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,263,134 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($309,559). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does USS MIDWAY MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $1,263,134 in grants to USS MIDWAY MUSEUM, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of USS MIDWAY MUSEUM?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $309,559 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like USS MIDWAY MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 38 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