Please reserve programs with the Reservationist at 206-768-7384 before applying for grant assistance. Thank you!

Educational Grant Assistance

The Museum of Flight is a non-profit organization dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and exhibiting historically significant air and space artifacts, which provide a foundation for scholarly research and lifetime learning programs that inspire an interest in and understanding of science, technology and the humanities.

Guidelines for the Museum of Flight grant assistance program

• To qualify for grant assistance (excluding the FedEx scholarship), your school or non-profit youth organization must have a minimum of 35% of students on a federal free or reduced lunch program. Some donors are requiring a higher minimum as noted below. Grant assistance is awarded after all other discounts are applied.
• Eligible schools/groups must apply for grant assistance at least two weeks prior to the date of their program.
• Please apply early as funds are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis as long as funding is available. If a group cancels within a four week period, the group is liable for a cancellation fee.
• As a requirement of the grant assistance program, all recipients must complete an assessment of the program(s) in which they participated. This assessment will help us improve our programs while allowing teachers to give us direct feedback. The assessment form will arrive with your grant confirmation letter. Please complete and return the assessment to The Museum of Flight within one week of the education program.
• For Sleepover Programs, the maximum award granted is 50% (excluding the FedEx scholarship).

This year we have funding from the following sources:

• Bank of America Aviation Learning Center Transportation Grant - for schools who have at least 50% of students receiving free or reduced school lunches and have reserved an Aviation Learning Center program. This scholarship also includes a transportaion reimbursement.
• City of Tukwila for Tukwila Schools (no minimum requirement).
• Emerald City Rotary for Hawthorne Elementary, Thurgood Marshall Elementary and Garfield High School in Seattle (no minimum requirement).
• Rotary Club of Lakewood for schools in the Clover Park School District (no minimum requirement, funds to be used toward outreach programs only).
• Museum of Flight funding for schools and youth organizations that do not qualify with the above funders and have at least 35% of students on a free or reduced lunch program.