Tigerflight Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
200376607
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2017–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2016
Location
Rome, GA, USA
Phone
4783975542
Rating
88
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Nonprofit Management

Reported finances

Revenue
$58,234
Expenses
$44,395
Assets
$106,323
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Thomas Prior (President & Treasurer)

People named in this filing

  • Thomas Prior (President & Treasurer)
  • Mark Deveau (Secretary)
  • Richard Hayes (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Leading Youth to the Dream of Flight and Offering Adults Opportunities to Serve Through Aviation

What it reported doing in 2025

AIRPORT FIELD TRIPS: Tiger Flight airport field trips last about 2 hours. In the first hour we organize the tour with three 15-minute stations for 5-8 youth. 1) We walk around the outside of the aircraft describing how an airfoil produces lift, the parts of the aircraft, and how the flight control surfaces maneuver the plane. 2) Each student sits in the cockpit as we discuss the instruments, how the yoke and rudder pedals move the flight control surfaces, and how the throttle controls the engine. 3) During the airport tour we explain designations and markings for taxiways and runways, legs of the traffic pattern, the automatic weather station, how to interpret the windsock, and time zones around the world. In the second hour we lead them in a competitive activity making foam plate gliders and learning how to adjust the flight control surfaces to maneuver the glider to land on a specific spot and turn and fly through a hoop. Then we finish with a 15-min Pilot in Command of Your Life presentation. In 2025 119 youth attended TigerFlight Airport Field trips.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 70
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 70.2%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 23.8%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.39; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 70.2% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 8 filed program accomplishments · $41K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.