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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
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2020 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,976
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION$8,976
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BUFFALO ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART: $300 → 13%ARCHITREASURES ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $3k → 14%ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1k → 14%SKENDER FOUNDATION: $150 → 14%FUTURE CITY CHICAGO: $300 → 14%WOMEN IN RESTORATION AND ENGINEERING: $500 → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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.

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2
Committee On Architecture for Education Foundation
Education
3
Aia Chicago Foundation

Aia chicago foundation invests in chicago's next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.

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4
Careers in Construction Sw Washington
Recreation & Sports
5
Chicago Architecture Biennial Inc

The Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) is a non-profit organization dedicated to convening the world to explore innovative ideas and bring people together to collectively imagine and shape the future of design through a public program of…

Human Services
6
American Institute of Architects Memphis Chapter

Our mission is to promote architecture and the profession, advocate for livable and sustainable communities, and serve as a resource for our members

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7
Aia Minnesota

See schedule o. the american institute of architects minnesota, founded in 1892, is the professional association for the architecture profession in minnesota. as a state component of aia national, aia minnesota provides services to local…

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8
American Institute of Architects

The mission of the american institute of architects (aia) is to unite architects in fellowship, promote the aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency of the profession, advance the science and art of planning and building and provide…

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9
The American Institute of Architects

Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.

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10
Driehaus Design Initiative
Arts & Culture
11
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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12
Institute of Classical Architecture and Art North Carolina Chapter

The ICAA advances the appreciation of the priciples of traditional architecture and it's allied arts by engaging educators, students and enthusiats in NC.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Architecture Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Organization of Minority Architects. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chicago Architecture Foundation: $33,976 · Arts & CultureChicago Architecture FoundationSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANSACE MENTOR PROGRAM OF ILLINOIS INC: $2,750 · EducationACE MENTO…Illinois Institute of Technology: $1,000 · EducationIllinois …NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS: $2,000 · Community ImprovementARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION: $1,038 · Community ImprovementWOMEN IN RESTORATION & ENGINEERING: $500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $300 · OtherBUFFALO ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART INC: $300 · OtherSKENDER FOUNDATION: $150 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO: $500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$36,476Education$3,750Community Improvement$3,038Other$1,250Housing & Shelter$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aia Chicago funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aia Chicago. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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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