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Who disclosed the most to aviation vendors

Named charter, flight-hour, maintenance, and aircraft-arrangement payments from university and affiliated-entity tax filings. Ranked by disclosed dollars, with each entity and accounting boundary shown.
1Schools disclosed
FY2021Fiscal year
1Named vendor lines
$103KLargest disclosure

Named aviation-vendor payments disclosed in Form 990 contractor or related-party schedules. These are filing-level amounts, not a complete measure of jet use.

Rank / schoolDisclosed vendor paymentsScope / source
01

Purdue

Purdue Research Foundation

$103K · $103,205

  • SMN Investments$103,205 · timeshare
Aircraft timeshareUniversity-wide foundationFoundation Form 990 · Schedule L

FY2021. The filing establishes a timeshare arrangement for university use, not routes, passengers, individual trips, or an athletics purpose.

How to read these rankings

These are named aviation-specific payments in Form 990 contractor and related-party schedules. They are not complete aviation budgets: the contractor schedule generally lists only the five highest-paid contractors above its reporting threshold, while Schedule L covers only interested-person transactions.

A missing school or year means no qualifying disclosure is in this corpus, not zero aviation spending. Schools can own aircraft, use vendors below the filing threshold, pay through another entity, or record costs inside broader travel, recruiting, maintenance, and operating accounts.

Entity and accounting labels matter. Athletics-association payments are closer to comparable program spending; university-wide arrangements can include presidential, trustee, donor, or administrative travel. Oregon's figure is prepaid airfare rather than measured usage, and Florida's West Star line is aviation maintenance rather than charter.