Ageless Aviation Dreams Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 452780141
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Carson City, NV, USA
- Phone
- 7754841844
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $713,604
- Expenses
- $694,140
- Assets
- $778,392
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DARRYL FISHER (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- STEVEN A BRIGANCE (DIRECTOR/LEG)
- JIM CARLSON (DIRECTOR)
- CAROL FISHER (SECRETARY/TR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The ageless aviation dreams foundation is a non-profit organization established and dedicated to honoring seniors and united states military veterans. The primary focus is on individuals living in long-term care communities. Our mission is togive back to those who have given. Through our donors, the foundation provides dream flights in a boeing stearman biplane, the same aircraft used to train many military aviators in the 1940's. Ageless aviation dreams foundation's mission is to share the joy of flying primarily with veterans and seniors living in independent and assisted living facilities. Senior veterans have been forgotten for the service they gave to our countrys freedom and the wisdom they will carry to the grave. We will take seniors and veterans on an airplane ride to give back to those who gave our country freedom. This is an effort to recognize them for the contribution they gave for our freedom and allow those that were in any branch of the military, armed forces or air for
What it reported doing in 2025
Ageless aviation dreams provided 748 airplane rides to senior citizens and military veterans in 2025 for a total of 8019 flights since 2011.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 94% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 84
- Accountability: 62
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 95.2%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: $60.33 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2.7%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.12; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.2% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.6% of revenue deployed · 95.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $661K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule D land buildings reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.