Form 990 for tax year 2023

Totals

Total revenue

$338,021

Total expenses

$369,183

Contributions and grants received

$251,467

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$86,150

Investment income

$404

Other revenue

$0

Total assets, end of year

$448,873

Total liabilities, end of year

$0

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$448,873

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$324,915

Management and general expenses

$38,542

Fundraising expenses

$5,726

Program service expenses (Part III)

$324,915

Program services were 88.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2023

• THE WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS FOUNDATION (WAS) PROGRAM, HOSTED BY THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT IN SEATTLE, WAS MODELED AFTER A SUCCESSFUL NASA PROGRAM TO PROMOTE SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) LEARNING AMONG HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS. WAS IS COMPOSED OF TWO PARTS: (1) A FIVE-MONTH COMPETITIVE STATEWIDE INTERACTIVE ONLINE LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOLLOWED BY (2) A SIX-DAY SUMMER "DESIGN" EXPERIENCE HOSTED BY THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT. DURING THE SUMMER RESIDENCY, OVER 100 STUDENTS JOINED US IN-PERSON AT THE MUSEUM OF FLIGHT, ALONG WITH 12 WASHINGTON STATE CERTIFIED TEACHERS, TO WORK IN COLLABORATIVE TEAMS WITH INPUT FROM PROFESSIONAL SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS ON THE DESIGN OF A HUMAN MISSION TO MARS. THEY ALSO TOURED STEM INDUSTRY FACILITIES AND COMPETED IN A HANDS-ON ENGINEERING CHALLENGES. AFTER COMPLETING THE PROGRAM, STUDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO PURSUE STEM CAREERS AND REPORT THEIR POST-HIGH SCHOOL COLLEGE AND DEGREE FIELD CHOICES TO THE WAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. THE PROGRAM WAS FUNDED THROUGH PRIVATE SOURCES SO THAT ANY INSPIRED STUDENT WILLING TO WORK COULD PARTICIPATE, REGARDLESS OF ECONOMIC ABILITY. STUDENTS REPRESENT MANY LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS IN THE STATE, AND ALL GENDERS, AS WELL AS UNDERREPRESENTED ETHNIC AND CULTURAL GROUPS. AS OF DECEMBER 2023, OVER 4,000 STUDENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE DISTANCE LEARNING PORTION OF THE WASHINGTON AEROSPACE SCHOLARS PROGRAM AND 2,171 STUDENTS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN A SUMMER EXPERIENCE AND BECAME PROGRAM ALUMNI.

  Expenses $324,915 · Revenue $86,150

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2023

Filed

13 August 2024

IRS schema version

2023v5.1

Source object

202432279349302523

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