· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| PERKINS & WILL | $10,000 |
| CADREHKS | $10,000 |
| NY SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $5,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NBNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +76%
- WCWESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +31%
- BABOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- ASAMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERIOR DESIGNERSone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +18%
- CFCENTER FOR ACTIVE DESIGN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +45%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to educate, inspire, and empower creative and design leaders.
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…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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…
Providing leadership in improving the building environment
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 mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Establishing and administering a voluntary plan for the specialized accreditation of interior design education offered at institutions of higher learning
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
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.
Otis prepares diverse students of art and design to enrich our world through their creativity, their skill, and their vision.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization American Society of Interior Designers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Society of Interior Designers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Architectural College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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