Honor Flight Inc
Arlington, VA · EIN 20-2751460. Reported 133 grants totalling $1,916,567 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Honor Flight Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P52) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 5% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,500. Half of what it reported fell between $7,290 and $17,706; the smallest was $5,022 and the largest $67,874. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
26 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $626,600 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dfw Honor Flight | Flower Mound, TX | $98,976 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight Philadelphia Corporation | West Chester, PA | $88,834 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of the Cape Fear Area Inc | Wilmington, NC | $74,318 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Wamegoo High School Honor Flight | Wamego, KS | $71,896 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central and Southwest Virginia Honor Flight | Bedford, VA | $68,938 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Old Dominion Honor Flight Inc | Virginia Bch, VA | $68,698 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight - Top of Virginia | Middletown, VA | $67,280 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of West Central Florida | St Petersburg, FL | $61,058 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Chicago Corp | Rosemont, IL | $60,102 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Nevada | Washoe Valley, NV | $59,092 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lake County Honor Flight | Park City, IL | $54,838 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Patriot Flight Inc | Albany, NY | $54,576 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Buffalo Niagara Honor Flight | Clarence, NY | $51,776 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight of Middle Tennessee | Tullahoma, TN | $43,302 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Northeast Indiana Inc | Huntertown, IN | $41,424 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Honor Flight Cleveland | Elyria, OH | $40,714 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of Southern New Jersey Inc | Sewell, NJ | $37,744 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Pittsburgh | West Sunbury, PA | $37,717 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of Southern Indiana Inc | Evansville, IN | $35,680 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southern Coffey County High School | Leroy, KS | $35,591 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rocky Mountain Honor Flight | Westminster, CO | $34,725 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vnc Honor Flight of Northern and Western Illinois | Fox River Grv, IL | $34,725 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Triad Honor Flight | Greensboro, NC | $33,862 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southeast Florida Honor Flight Inc | Stuart, FL | $32,442 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Tallahassee Inc | Tallahassee, FL | $31,318 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kansas Honor Flight Inc | Hutchinson, KS | $31,102 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Collier County Honor Flight Inc | Naples, FL | $30,788 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of Portland Oregon | Portland, OR | $30,674 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight Southern Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $30,428 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Utah Honor Flight | Riverton, UT | $30,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Coast Honor Flight | St Johns, FL | $26,693 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight Bluegrass Chapter Inc | Louisville, KY | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Space Coast Honor Flight Inc | Rockledge, FL | $25,918 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Honor Flight Austin | Austin, TX | $25,917 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Honor Flight of Southern Colorado | Colorado Spgs, CO | $25,620 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Villages Honor Flight Inc | Lady Lake, FL | $24,872 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight South Florida Inc | Plantation, FL | $23,638 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Honor Flight Central Florida Inc | Orlando, FL | $21,892 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Houston | Spring, TX | $18,311 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight Connecticut | Beacon Falls, CT | $15,698 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight of Central Oregon | Bend, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| South Willamette Valley Honor Flight Inc | Springfield, OR | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Honor Flight of Northern New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $14,466 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Talons Out Honor Flight Inc | Portage, MI | $14,316 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Honor Flight Rochester Inc | Rochester, NY | $13,626 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater Peoria Honor Flight | Peoria, IL | $13,548 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Stars and Stripes Honor Flight Inc | Menomonee Fls, WI | $13,542 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Tri-State | Cincinnati, OH | $13,176 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| First Coast Honor Flight Inc | Jacksonville, FL | $12,520 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Kansas Student Education | St Lyndon, KS | $11,575 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight of the Appalachian Highlands | Jonesborough, TN | $11,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honor Flight of Jackson Heights | Holton, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Missions of Honor Inc | Appleton, WI | $8,198 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight Long Island Inc | Hampton Bays, NY | $6,945 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Land of Lincoln Honor Flight | Springfield, IL | $6,872 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Last Frontier Honor Flight Inc | Wasilla, AK | $6,652 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Badger Honor Flight Incorporated | Madison, WI | $6,182 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mid Michigan Honor Flight Inc | Frederic, MI | $5,790 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Ridge Honor Flight | Hendersonville, NC | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Honor Flight of the Quad Cities Inc | Davenport, IA | $5,182 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
37 of 60 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
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What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 54 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 38 | $548,052 | $12,700 |
| 2022 | 41 | $739,397 | $17,042 |
| 2023 | 27 | $285,106 | $9,346 |
| 2024 | 27 | $344,012 | $9,516 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
15% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Honor Flight Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1405 S Fern Street 702, Arlington, VA, 22202.
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