Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
Vintage Wings Inc
Vintage Wings Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,767 to it, the largest being MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $240k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $152k
- Net assets
- $518k
What Vintage Wings Inc does
Mission
Aircraft restoration and maintenance of historic military aircraft that enables the aircraft to be flown to regional airshows and other events for educating the public on U.S. Army Air Corps transport missions during World War II.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Aircraft restoration and maintenance expenses including replacement parts, routine maintenance parts and components. These include airframe and engine parts, instrumentation and other required items to maintain airworthiness.
$111,155 spent71% of program spendingDirect operating aircraft expenses for aircraft fuel and oil. This permits the aircraft to be flown to regional airshows and other events for educating the public on US Army Air Force transport missions during World War II.
$12,495 spent8% of program spendingExpenses related to operating the hangar museum and store maintained for educational efforts related to US Army Air Force transport missions during World War II.
$31,206 spent20% of program spendingProgram Service Expenses 938, Grants and allocations 0, Revenue 0 Travel expenses for the aircraft crews while at regional airshows and other events for educating the public on US Army Air Force transport missions during World War II.
$938 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $155,794.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $33k to $384k (+1077%).
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 Vintage Wings Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $15k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Vintage Wings 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
Vintage Wings Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 63% · 2022 60% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“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
Vintage Wings Inc draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.
Against its field
Vintage Wings Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Vintage Wings 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Vintage Wings 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 Vintage Wings Inc?
- Vintage Wings Inc (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $151,767 to it, the largest being MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION ($45,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Vintage Wings Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $151,767 in grants to Vintage Wings Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Vintage Wings Inc?
- MCELHATTAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Vintage Wings Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing