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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.

$253k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$14,297
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$5.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations American Society of Interior Designers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$100k17%
FY20232$65k50%
FY20224$85k50%
FY20214$40k50%
FY20206$80k67%
FY20193$65k33%
FY20184$105k75%
FY20175$123kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Science & Tech$341kEducation$150kArts & Culture$120kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$13k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Building Museum$100,00040%
Center For Advanced Design Research And Evaluation$80,000321%
University of Texas$70,0002n/a
Western Carolina University Foundation$70,00021%
Hks Inc$70,0002n/a
Perkins & Will$47,0004n/a
Boston Architectural College$30,00020%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$30,0002n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc$28,75020%
Florida International University$23,0472n/a
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of American Society of Interior Designers Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Building Museum$100,00040%
Center For Advanced Design Research And Evaluation$80,000321%
University of Texas$70,0002n/a
Western Carolina University Foundation$70,00021%
Hks Inc$70,0002n/a
Perkins & Will$47,0004n/a
Boston Architectural College$30,00020%
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$30,0002n/a
Florida International University Foundation Inc$28,75020%
Florida International University$23,0472n/a
Oklahoma State University$20,0001n/a
American Society of Interior Designers$20,00010%
Center for Active Design Inc$15,50011%
Colorado State University$13,7502n/a
Public Design Studio$12,50019%
Unversity of Oklahoma$10,0001n/a
Jsr Associates LLC$8,7501n/a
Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum Inc$8,0001n/a
New York School of Interior Design$5,25010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget American Society of Interior Designers Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Building Museum: $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCenter For Advanced Design Research And Evaluation: $80,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetWestern Carolina University Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoston Architectural College: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlorida International University Foundation Inc: $28,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Society of Interior Designers: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Active Design Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPublic Design Studio: $12,500 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetNew York School of Interior Design: $5,250 over 1y, 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 9.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 American Society of Interior Designers Foundation

How much does American Society of Interior Designers Foundation give?
American Society of Interior Designers Foundation reported 7 itemized grants totaling $99,547, out of $253,352 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does American Society of Interior Designers Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (51%), Education (23%), Arts & Culture (18%).
Who are American Society of Interior Designers Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Building Museum ($100k), Center For Advanced Design Research And Evaluation ($80k), University of Texas ($70k).
Does American Society of Interior Designers Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Society of Interior Designers Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is American Society of Interior Designers Foundation based?
American Society of Interior Designers Foundation is based in DC.

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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $59k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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