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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
FY2024Fiscal 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 2024. The filing calls this prepaid airfare. The fixed block is not a measure of flights used, routes, passengers, or athletics purpose.

02

Georgia

University of Georgia Athletic Association

$4.73M · $4,730,575

  • Aircraft Charter Management Experts$2,530,575 · charter
  • Wheels Up$2,200,000 · charter
Top contractorsAll athletics · not football-onlyUGAAA Form 990 · Part VII-B

Year ended June 2024. The filing lists only its highest-paid contractors and gives no flight dates, routes, aircraft, passengers, or sport allocation.

03

Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame du Lac

$1.46M · $1,459,483

  • Flexjet$1,459,483 · flight hours
Purchased flight hoursUniversity-wideUniversity Form 990 · Schedule L

Year ended June 2024. The related-party disclosure establishes flight hours sold to the university, not routes, passengers, individual trips, or an athletics purpose.

04

Florida

University Athletic Association

$1.44M · $1,435,449

  • CharterX$1,435,449 · charter
Top contractorAll athletics · not football-onlyUAA Form 990 · Part VII-B

FY2024. The filing identifies an annual contractor payment but no flight dates, routes, aircraft, passengers, or sport allocation.

05

TCU

Texas Christian University

$172K · $171,906

  • Business Jet Access$171,906 · charter
Related-party charterUniversity-wide · athletics among stated usesUniversity Form 990 · Schedule L

Year ended May 2024. The filing describes charter air travel involving a trustee-owned vendor, but does not allocate the payment to athletics or identify trips.

06

Arizona State

Sun Angel Foundation

$119K · $118,500

  • Southwest Airlines$118,500 · charter
Top contractorAthletics foundationFoundation Form 990 · Part VII-B

Year ended June 2024. The filing establishes charter services paid by the booster foundation but gives no routes, aircraft, passengers, or sport allocation.

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.