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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.
2Schools disclosed
FY2025Fiscal year
2Named 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 2025. The filing calls this prepaid airfare. The fixed block is not a measure of flights used, routes, passengers, or athletics purpose.

02

Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma Foundation

$1.54M · $1,539,019

  • NetJets Aviation$1,539,019 · charter
Top contractorAthletics-specificFoundation Form 990 · Part VII-B

FY2025. The filing describes travel services for athletics but gives no flight dates, 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.