National Air Traffic Controllers Association Charitable Foundation

Analysis

National Air Traffic Controllers Association Charitable Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1997, 29 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, National Air Traffic Controllers Association Charitable Foundation reported income of $372k and spending of $422k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $328k to $372k (+14%), an average of +3.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 99% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, National Air Traffic Controllers Association Charitable Foundation sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 38th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mountain Home Education Foundation Inc ($372k), A Moment of Magic ($372k) and Jon and Sonja Laidig Foundation Inc ($372k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $256k against liabilities of $71k, net assets of $185k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.