EIN 87-0393645

Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
15
City
State
Year formed
1982
Most recent tax filings
2023-12-01
Description
Aerospace Heritage Foundation of UT provides capital support to Hill Aerospace Museum for facility improvement, museum expansion, and projects that are not eligible for Air Force funding. In addition to this, the foundation aims to educate and excite individuals about aerospace heritage. During spring, summer, and fall of 2022, they distributed funding for thirteen intern scholarships/fellowships amounting to $16,500 for university and technical college students. The 2022 scholars were Emmae Ahlquist among others.
Total revenues
$765,830
2023
Total expenses
$1,172,381
2023
Total assets
$1,338,277
2023
Num. employees
15
2023

Program areas at Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

The Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah distributed funding for eleven intern scholarships / fellowships during the spring, summer and fall of 2023 totaling 16,500 to university and technical college students. The 2023 recipients were: briley blanchard education Utah state university brock gouett restoration salt lake community college devin hart curatorial university of Oklahoma sydney olvera curatorial Utah state university sara watkins curatorial Utah state university fellowship lindsey haight education Utah state university nelson davis education ogden/weber tech college mandi livingston education southern Utah university kolbe hollenbeck restoration Utah state university zach richmond restoration salt lake community college wyatt rohrich restoration weber state university o Foundation 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. O the annual commander's cup golf tournament was held at the hubbard golf course on september 5, 2023. Thirty-two foursomes (128 paid participants along with 32 local golf professionals) for a total of 160 golfers participated. 54,660 was taken in with net funds raised for the hill Aerospace museum was 38,917. United states congressman, blake moore, of Utah's first congressional district, once again participated in the tournament. O the 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 supplemental legislative funding during the 2022 legislative session. Foundation executive director, robb alexander serves as the chair of the military affairs sub-committee of the davis chamber of commerce legislative affairs committee. O r & o construction, general contractor for the museum expansion project, substantially completed their work on the 90,000 square foot l.s. Skaggs gallery on october 17, 2023. O Foundation executive director, robb alexander continued to serve on the executive committee of the state of Utah museum board. He was appointed by Utah governor spencer cox. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah sponsored the annual hill Aerospace museum volunteer appreciation luncheon held at the Texas roadhouse restaurant in layton, Utah on december 4, 2023. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued an oral history project, interviewing long-time Foundation board members, museum volunteers and others. 2023 oral histories were completed on terry bean and russ westcott. Other interviews will be held in the future. O donation boxes, credit card donation kiosks, wishing wells, and the foto booth located throughout the museum brought in 51,083 during 2023. O 186,017.00 in gifts and grants were receipted by the Aerospace Heritage Foundation from july through december of 2023 from 161 donors. Major gifts/grants included, 42,657 from the state of Utah, 50,000 from the northrop grumman Foundation, 10,000 from america first credit union, 10,000 from stewart education Foundation. Other major gifts throughout the year included funding from nasa space grant consortium, america first credit union, swire coca-cola, kier construction, the alan and jeanne hall Foundation and state of Utah stem action center. 175,000 was appropriated by the state legislature during the 2022 session for the hill Aerospace museum. The funding will come from two different state agencies, the governor's office of economic opportunity, and the state division of arts and museums. Foundation members worked diligently in securing the appropriation. A total of 501,959.00 was received in gifts and grants during 2023. O sixteen museum aircraft are currently being sponsored by generous donors through the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah. The museum's b-17, b-24, c-47, f-4c, f-16 a model, f-16 "little precious," f-16 thunderbird, p-47, p-51, sr-71, the jenny, the u-2 dragon lady, the burgess wright flyer, the ch-3 helicopter and h-53 helicopter are all a part of the program. These annual sponsorships raise much needed unrestricted funds for the museum. One new sponsorship in 2023 was the a-10 thunderbolt. O the flight line gift shop, which is operated by the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah, had 579,166.92 in gross sales for the year 2023 (non- audited). The flight line gift shop experienced better success with its online store allowing patrons to purchase gift shop items "virtually." O Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah operations manager, anna serilli, continued creating virtual tours for of a number of hill Aerospace museum aircraft. Virtual tours now include the a-10 thunderbolt ii (warthog); b-17 flying fortress, the c-140 jetstar, the sr-71 blackbird, the c119g flying boxcar, the c-124c globemaster ii, the c-47 skytrain, the kc-135 stratotanker, the p-51 mustang, the sikorsky mh-53m pave low iv helicopter as well as the icbm exhibit launch control center, and the museum's 8th air force exhibit. O Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah website and social media statistics for the period of july 1, 2023, through december 31, 2023, are as follows. O from july 1, 2023 - december 31, 2023, the aerospaceutah.org web site experienced more than 90,400 webpage views with 66,775 new visitors. The aerospaceutah.org web site had 191,282 views in 2023 with 144,089 new visitors. The site experienced a 73% engagement rate throughout 2023. O between july 1, 2023 - december 31, 2023, the museum saw a 7.3% increase of followers on facebook, compared to january 2023 - june 2023. Between the same time frame, the museum saw a 14.4% increase of followers on instagram. Between 1 july and 31 december 2023, the museum reached 998,000 individual facebook accounts and 65,000 individual instagram accounts. Between 1 july and 31 december 2023, the museum's tiktok followers grew to a total of 7321, an increase of 6% compared to january 2023 - june 2023. The strategic plan aids the mission of the museum in reaching a much larger global audience through social media. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation continued to work with forthgear to update the museum collection webpage. The collections page is now divided into the following aircraft types: attack aircraft, bomber aircraft, cargo aircraft, early aircraft, fighter aircraft, helicopters, and surveillance aircraft. Within each section each aircraft is listed with photograph (s), specific information on each aircraft, aircraft specifications, the aircraft's mission and tie to hill air force base, frequently asked questions, other media on the aircraft, as well as a link to items in the flight line gift shop related to the aircraft. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued to take advantage of its 10,000 per month google ad words grant. Through forthgear, our seo provider, a google ad words campaign continued highlighting key search terms or words to attempt to bring aerospaceutah.org to the top in all google searches for the museum. During the period july 1, 2023 through december 31, 2023, in the google ad words campaign there were 28,750 impressions with 620 clicks for a click through rate of 2.7%. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued working with forthgear to conduct search engine optimization work for the aerospaceutah.org web site. This optimization has increased the visibility of our web site and will move to the top of if not at the top of any web search of hill Aerospace museum. Forthgear also assisted us in our social media marketing efforts and implementation of the flight line gift shop e- commerce site.
The Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah distributed funding for eleven intern scholarships / fellowships during the spring, summer and fall of 2023 totaling 16,500 to university and technical college students. The 2023 recipients were: briley blanchard education Utah state university brock gouett restoration salt lake community college devin hart curatorial university of Oklahoma sydney olvera curatorial Utah state university sara watkins curatorial Utah state university fellowship lindsey haight education Utah state university nelson davis education ogden/weber tech college mandi livingston education southern Utah university kolbe hollenbeck restoration Utah state university zach richmond restoration salt lake community college wyatt rohrich restoration weber state university o Foundation 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. O the annual commander's cup golf tournament was held at the hubbard golf course on september 5, 2023. Thirty-two foursomes (128 paid participants along with 32 local golf professionals) for a total of 160 golfers participated. 54,660 was taken in with net funds raised for the hill Aerospace museum was 38,917. United states congressman, blake moore, of Utah's first congressional district, once again participated in the tournament. O the 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 supplemental legislative funding during the 2022 legislative session. Foundation executive director, robb alexander serves as the chair of the military affairs sub-committee of the davis chamber of commerce legislative affairs committee. O r & o construction, general contractor for the museum expansion project, substantially completed their work on the 90,000 square foot l.s. Skaggs gallery on october 17, 2023. O Foundation executive director, robb alexander continued to serve on the executive committee of the state of Utah museum board. He was appointed by Utah governor spencer cox. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah sponsored the annual hill Aerospace museum volunteer appreciation luncheon held at the Texas roadhouse restaurant in layton, Utah on december 4, 2023. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued an oral history project, interviewing long-time Foundation board members, museum volunteers and others. 2023 oral histories were completed on terry bean and russ westcott. Other interviews will be held in the future. O donation boxes, credit card donation kiosks, wishing wells, and the foto booth located throughout the museum brought in 51,083 during 2023. O 186,017.00 in gifts and grants were receipted by the Aerospace Heritage Foundation from july through december of 2023 from 161 donors. Major gifts/grants included, 42,657 from the state of Utah, 50,000 from the northrop grumman Foundation, 10,000 from america first credit union, 10,000 from stewart education Foundation. Other major gifts throughout the year included funding from nasa space grant consortium, america first credit union, swire coca-cola, kier construction, the alan and jeanne hall Foundation and state of Utah stem action center. 175,000 was appropriated by the state legislature during the 2022 session for the hill Aerospace museum. The funding will come from two different state agencies, the governor's office of economic opportunity, and the state division of arts and museums. Foundation members worked diligently in securing the appropriation. A total of 501,959.00 was received in gifts and grants during 2023. O sixteen museum aircraft are currently being sponsored by generous donors through the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah. The museum's b-17, b-24, c-47, f-4c, f-16 a model, f-16 "little precious," f-16 thunderbird, p-47, p-51, sr-71, the jenny, the u-2 dragon lady, the burgess wright flyer, the ch-3 helicopter and h-53 helicopter are all a part of the program. These annual sponsorships raise much needed unrestricted funds for the museum. One new sponsorship in 2023 was the a-10 thunderbolt. O the flight line gift shop, which is operated by the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah, had 579,166.92 in gross sales for the year 2023 (non- audited). The flight line gift shop experienced better success with its online store allowing patrons to purchase gift shop items "virtually." O Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah operations manager, anna serilli, continued creating virtual tours for of a number of hill Aerospace museum aircraft. Virtual tours now include the a-10 thunderbolt ii (warthog); b-17 flying fortress, the c-140 jetstar, the sr-71 blackbird, the c119g flying boxcar, the c-124c globemaster ii, the c-47 skytrain, the kc-135 stratotanker, the p-51 mustang, the sikorsky mh-53m pave low iv helicopter as well as the icbm exhibit launch control center, and the museum's 8th air force exhibit. O Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah website and social media statistics for the period of july 1, 2023, through december 31, 2023, are as follows. O from july 1, 2023 - december 31, 2023, the aerospaceutah.org web site experienced more than 90,400 webpage views with 66,775 new visitors. The aerospaceutah.org web site had 191,282 views in 2023 with 144,089 new visitors. The site experienced a 73% engagement rate throughout 2023. O between july 1, 2023 - december 31, 2023, the museum saw a 7.3% increase of followers on facebook, compared to january 2023 - june 2023. Between the same time frame, the museum saw a 14.4% increase of followers on instagram. Between 1 july and 31 december 2023, the museum reached 998,000 individual facebook accounts and 65,000 individual instagram accounts. Between 1 july and 31 december 2023, the museum's tiktok followers grew to a total of 7321, an increase of 6% compared to january 2023 - june 2023. The strategic plan aids the mission of the museum in reaching a much larger global audience through social media. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation continued to work with forthgear to update the museum collection webpage. The collections page is now divided into the following aircraft types: attack aircraft, bomber aircraft, cargo aircraft, early aircraft, fighter aircraft, helicopters, and surveillance aircraft. Within each section each aircraft is listed with photograph (s), specific information on each aircraft, aircraft specifications, the aircraft's mission and tie to hill air force base, frequently asked questions, other media on the aircraft, as well as a link to items in the flight line gift shop related to the aircraft. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued to take advantage of its 10,000 per month google ad words grant. Through forthgear, our seo provider, a google ad words campaign continued highlighting key search terms or words to attempt to bring aerospaceutah.org to the top in all google searches for the museum. During the period july 1, 2023 through december 31, 2023, in the google ad words campaign there were 28,750 impressions with 620 clicks for a click through rate of 2.7%. O the Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Utah continued working with forthgear to conduct search engine optimization work for the aerospaceutah.org web site. This optimization has increased the visibility of our web site and will move to the top of if not at the top of any web search of hill Aerospace museum. Forthgear also assisted us in our social media marketing efforts and implementation of the flight line gift shop e- commerce site.

Who funds Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

Grants from foundations and other nonprofits
GrantmakerDescriptionAmount
Northrop Grumman FoundationGeneral Operating Grants & Matching Gifts.$50,000
Community Foundation of UtahGeneral Support$10,000
Wadman FoundationSupport for Hill Aerospace Museum$350

Personnel at Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

NameTitleCompensation
Robb S. Alexander, Jr.Executive Director
Camille HazeldineDirector
Elisabeth CropperOperations Manager
Lisa WilsonFlight Line Gift Shop Manager
Barney ChapmanBoard Member$0
...and 3 more key personnel

Financials for Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

RevenuesFYE 12/2023
Total grants, contributions, etc.$508,958
Program services$0
Investment income and dividends$10,439
Tax-exempt bond proceeds$0
Royalty revenue$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Net income from fundraising events$53,625
Net income from gaming activities$0
Net income from sales of inventory$185,397
Miscellaneous revenues$7,411
Total revenues$765,830

Form 990s for Aerospace Heritage Foundation of Ut

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2023-122024-09-26990View PDF
2022-122023-09-21990View PDF
2021-122022-09-21990View PDF
2020-122021-08-31990View PDF
2019-122020-10-08990View PDF
...and 10 more Form 990s
Data update history
September 24, 2024
Updated personnel
Identified 9 new personnel
December 28, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $10,000 from Community Foundation of Utah
December 25, 2023
Received grants
Identified 1 new grant, including a grant for $50,000 from Northrop Grumman Foundation
October 26, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2022
October 26, 2023
Updated personnel
Identified 1 new personnel
Nonprofit Types
Arts, culture, and humanities nonprofitsMuseumsCharities
Issues
Arts, cultural, and humanitiesMilitary and veterans
Characteristics
Political advocacyFundraising eventsCommunity engagement / volunteeringProvides scholarshipsFundraising races, competitions, and tournamentsTax deductible donationsAccepts online donations
General information
Address
PO Box 612
Roy, UT 84067
Metro area
Ogden-Clearfield, UT
County
Weber County, UT
Website URL
aerospaceutah.org/ 
Phone
(801) 737-4344
IRS details
EIN
87-0393645
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990
Year formed
1982
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
A57: Science and Technology Museums
NAICS code, primary
7121: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
Parent/child status
Independent
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