· Public charity
American Society of Interior Designers Foundation
The foundation provides grants and scholarships for the collection, expansion, and dissemination of an interior design evidence-based body of knowledge, and scholarships that recognize prospective and current contributions to the interior design profession.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $99,547 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,352 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $153,805 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR ADVANCED DESIGN RESEARCH | $20,000 |
| BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| FL INTERNATIONAL UNIV | $14,297 |
| CADREHKS | $10,000 |
| PERKINS & WILL | $10,000 |
| NY SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $5,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NBNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +36%
- WCWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +31%
- BABOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERSone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +7%
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- CFCENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +45%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower creative and design leaders.
Providing leadership in improving the building environment
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Establishing and administering a voluntary plan for the specialized accreditation of interior design education offered at institutions of higher learning
The center for arts, design and social research is a private, nonprofit institution of higher education that provides instruction in and conducts research on the relationship of art and design to global societies. the center offers…
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.
Naab develops and maintains a system of accreditation in professional architecture education that is responsive to the needs of society and allows institutions with varying resources and circumstances to evolve according to their…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Building on frank lloyd wright's designs and thoughts, the school is a graduate program in architecture that teaches and practices learning by doing, new ways of looking, an ability to honor and build with the landscape, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York School of Interior Design and the most unlike its peers is Western Carolina University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Center For Advanced Design Research And Evaluation ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC DESIGN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Society of Interior Designers Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.