Michigan · Nonprofit
WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM
WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,351 to it, the largest being JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION ($47,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $280k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $900k
What Warbirds of Glory Museum does
Mission
The Warbirds of Glory Museum was formed to restore and fly period aircraft and offering a unique educational opportunity to understand the Second World War experience while mentoring youth in mechanical skills aircraft restoration and American values.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration - Continued work on the bomb bay fuselage spars and other parts of the center section of the aircraft. Also began restoration of a 1946 tug. Lastly accepted and installed new CNC machine which vastly increasing our inhouse manufacturing capabilities plus offers additional educational opportunities for our students.
$65,748 spent$113,138 earned by the program45% of program spendingStudent Apprenticeship Program - Continued to mentor students while adding to their numbers plus educational opportunities.
$65,748 spent$113,138 earned by the program45% of program spendingGuardians of History - greatly expanded the number of artifacts for the Jim Trick Hall while increasing the number of appearances at outside events and airshows.
$14,611 spent$25,141 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $146,107.
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 $349k to $797k (+128%).
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.
90% of WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Allen Tucker
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $15k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM’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
WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 60% · 2022 99% · 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Michigan, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WARBIRDS OF GLORY 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 Michigan
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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM?
- WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,351 to it, the largest being JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION ($47,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $103,351 in grants to WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM?
- JOHN T HEWITT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $47,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WARBIRDS OF GLORY MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 10 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