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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.
6Schools disclosed
FY2023Fiscal year
7Named vendor lines
$5.00MLargest 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

Oregon

University of Oregon Foundation

$5.00M · $5,000,000

  • Wheels Up Private Jets$5,000,000 · prepaid
Prepaid creditFoundation · athletics connection unprovenFoundation Form 990 · Part VII-B

Year ended June 2023. The filing calls this prepaid airfare. The fixed block is not a measure of flights used, routes, passengers, or athletics purpose.

02

Florida

University Athletic Association

$3.89M · $3,885,704

  • CharterX$3,503,016 · charter
  • West Star Aviation$382,688 · maintenance
Top contractorsAll athletics · not football-onlyUAA Form 990 · Part VII-B

FY2023. CharterX is a charter vendor; West Star is an aviation maintenance provider. These are vendor payments, not a pure flight-usage total.

03

LSU

Tiger Athletic Foundation

$1.95M · $1,951,019

  • Executive Aircraft Charter Services$1,951,019 · charter
Top contractorAthletics foundationFoundation Form 990 · Part VII-B

FY2023. The filing labels the service as travel and gives no flight dates, routes, aircraft, passengers, or sport allocation.

04

Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame du Lac

$1.48M · $1,483,914

  • Flexjet$1,483,914 · flight hours
Purchased flight hoursUniversity-wideUniversity Form 990 · Schedule L

Year ended June 2023. The related-party disclosure establishes flight hours sold to the university, not routes, passengers, individual trips, or an athletics purpose.

05

TCU

Texas Christian University

$400K · $400,140

  • Business Jet Access$400,140 · charter
Related-party charterUniversity-wide · athletics among stated usesUniversity Form 990 · Schedule L

Year ended May 2023. The filing describes charter air travel involving a trustee-owned vendor, but does not allocate the payment to athletics or identify trips.

06

Purdue

Purdue Research Foundation

$125K · $125,297

  • SMN Investments$125,297 · timeshare
Aircraft timeshareUniversity-wide foundationFoundation Form 990 · Schedule L

FY2023. 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.