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Aia Chicago

The purpose of this organization is to provide education and support to architects within the territory of the chicago chapter.

$9k
Granted FY2020
1
Grants FY2020
1
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$8,976
Largest grant, FY2020
$8,976
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2018 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Aia Chicago funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20201$9k0%
FY201811$36kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Arts & Culture$36kEducation$4kCommunity Improvement$3kScience & Tech$1kEnvironment$500Housing & Shelter$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Chicago Architecture Foundation$33,97630%
Ace Mentor Program of Illinois Inc$2,75021%
Society of Architectural Historians$2,50020%
National Organization of Minority Architects$2,00021%
Archi-Treasures Association$1,03820%
Illinois Institute of Technology$1,00020%
Rebuilding Together Metro Chicago$50020%
Women in Restoration & Engineering$5002n/a
Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart Inc$3002n/a
Skender Foundation$15020%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($300), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Aia Chicago supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $33,976 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAce Mentor Program of Illinois Inc: $2,750 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSociety of Architectural Historians: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Organization of Minority Architects: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetArchi-Treasures Association: $1,038 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Metro Chicago: $500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSkender Foundation: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Aia Chicago

How much does Aia Chicago give?
Aia Chicago reported 1 grants totaling $8,976 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2020.
What does Aia Chicago fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2020, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (81%), Education (8%), Community Improvement (7%).
Who are Aia Chicago's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2020: Chicago Architecture Foundation ($34k), Ace Mentor Program of Illinois Inc ($3k), Society of Architectural Historians ($3k).
Does Aia Chicago fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Aia Chicago?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Aia Chicago based?
Aia Chicago is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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