Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 870393645
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- ROY, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8017374344
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $823,969
- Expenses
- $710,899
- Assets
- $1,474,446
- Liabilities
- $95,919
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- ROBB ALEXANDER (NONVOTING DI): $125,150 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Founded to provide capital support for hill aerospace museum in roy, Utah. This support provides for the museum's facility improvement, museum expansion, and projects for which air force funding is not available. Additionally our goal is to educate, excite and lead students and visitors into the world of flight and the ever-expanding knowledge of space.
What it reported doing in 2024
Othe aerospace heritage foundation of Utah distributed funding for ten intern scholarships / fellowships during the spring, summer and fall of 2022 totaling 31,500 to university students. This included two Utah state university year-long fellowships. The 2024 recipients were: beruktawit gebreamlak curatorial columbia university cameron cabe education weber state university chris white restoration Utah state university elizabeth dougall education university of Utah gavin nelson education weber state university ivan coray restoration Utah state university jana brough curatorial Utah state university jeremiah everhart education weber state university megan fairbanks education Utah state university michelle bartlett curatorial Utah state university ofoundation executive director, robb alexander, along with, board chair, kevin sullivan and vice chair, barney chapman, continued to work closely with leadership and members of the Utah state legislature. Othe legislative affairs committees of the ogden/weber chamber of commerce, davis chamber of commerce, and northern Utah chamber coalition all listed hill aerospace museum as a top priority for legislative support and ongoing funding during the 2024 legislative session. Foundation executive director, robb alexander serves as the chair of both the of the davis chamber of commerce legislative affairs committee and the ogden weber chamber of commerce military affairs sub-committee. Ofoundation executive director, robb alexander continued to serve on the executive committee of the state of Utah museum advisory board. He was appointed by Utah governor spencer cox. Othe aerospace heritage foundation's flight line gift shop had a "booth" at the wings over the wasatch air & space show june 29, 30, 2024 at hill air force base. The gift shop experienced sales of more than 18,000 during those two days. Othe annual commander's cup golf tournament was held at the hubbard golf course on august 20, 2024. Thirty-two foursomes (128 paid participants along with 32 local golf professionals) for a total of 160 golfers participated. 50,160 was taken in with net funds raised for the hill aerospace museum was 36,933. Othe aerospace heritage foundation's flight line gift shop had a sales of 17,010 at the museum's open aircraft day september 21, 2024. Othe aerospace heritage foundation of Utah sponsored the annual hill aerospace museum volunteer appreciation luncheon held at the Texas roadhouse restaurant in layton, Utah on monday, december 9, 2024. Othe aerospace heritage foundation of Utah created three committees for board members to participate in. Those committees are fundraising / external relations, education, and restoration. Board members chairing the committees are max stitzer, fundraising / external relations; francesca suarez, education; mickey mcpartland, restoration. Othe final payment for the l. S. Skaggs gallery construction project in the amount of 54,642.55 was made on december 6, 2024. Odonation boxes, credit card donation kiosks, wishing wells, and the foto booth located in areas throughout the museum brought in 58,750 during 2024. O275,466.33 in gifts and grants were receipted by the aerospace heritage foundation from july through december of 2024 from 145 donors. Major gifts/grants included, 148,750 from the state of Utah, 50,000 from the northrop grumman foundation, 25,000 from the stewart education foundation 10,000 from america first credit union. Other major gifts throughout the year included 150,000 from sunset ridge development partners, 10,000 from the glam foundation, 12,000 from nasa space grant consortium, and gifts from swire coca-cola, kier construction, and the alan and jeanne hall foundation. 175,000 in ongoing funding was appropriated by the state legislature during the 2024 session for the hill aerospace museum. The funding is now a line item in the state of Utah budget. A total of 631,918 was received in gifts and grants during 2024. Otwenty museum aircraft are currently
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 59
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 57
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Limited
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 13.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.07; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $624K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $125K · 20 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 48/100.