Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION
WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,857 to it, the largest being College Success Foundation ($100,807). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 792 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 792 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio match
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 8% · 2018 34% · 2019 35% · 2020 36% · 2021 37% · 2022 20% · 2023 39% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
60% of WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $2k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Museum of Flight Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION’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
WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% 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
92% 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 WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
92% of WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50 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.
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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Ray Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Si Robin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Clay Lacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Broadcom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Power Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emil Buehler Perpetual Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Society of Transport Aircraft Trading Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Codeorgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Credit Unions in the State of Washingtonportfolio 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 WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS 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 Washington
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
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS 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 WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION?
- WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,857 to it, the largest being College Success Foundation ($100,807). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $109,857 in grants to WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION?
- College Success Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $100,807 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing