Virginia · Nonprofit
VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION
VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,913 to it, the largest being AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY GROUP ($64,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Inclocal
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio match
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $0 → $25k.
From the IRS filings of VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Arts Council of Fairfax County InclocalVA · funds 45 organizations near you
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sporty's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Walter J Gatti Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dwoskin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ga Telesis Charitable Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dechomai Asset Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emil Buehler Perpetual Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James C Allen Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Helicopter Society International Inc · exempt
- American Helicopter Society Group · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION?
- VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $82,913 to it, the largest being AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY GROUP ($64,025). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $82,913 in grants to VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETY GROUP is the largest funder on record, with $64,025 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERTICAL FLIGHT FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing