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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$6.0MArts & Culture$3.4MHousing & Shelter$964kCommunity Improvement$785kPublic Benefit$669kHealth$520kEnvironment$297kPhilanthropy$240kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $787,777 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,062,196 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $274,419 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 $10k15 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $415k
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$230M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIA FOUNDATION$125,000
US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS$125,000
NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM$100,000
THE KENNEDY CENTER$65,000
AIAS$45,625
AIADC$27,000
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON$25,000
US CONFERENCE OF MAYORS$25,000
THE CENTER FOR HEALTH DESIGN INC$25,000
AIA CHICAGO$20,000
CASEY TREES$18,500
AIA SAN FRANCISCO$12,071
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES$12,000
AIA MINNESOTA$12,000
CENTER FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING SYSTEMS$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA: $125k → 13%MSU FOUNDATION: $5k → 24%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11M · 75 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

75 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 57 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
115

Total granted

$11M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+25%

Still filing today

77%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AF
    AIA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +21% · 54% of their budget
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS
    5× · 2018–2022 · $402k · revenue +594%
  • NB
    NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +76%
  • TP
    THE PURPOSE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · $394k
  • CN
    Charity Navigatorgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue +80%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Aia Arizona the American Institute of Architects

To advance the knowledge and abilities of organization members in the field of architecture through seminars, networking, and member services.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
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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4
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

To advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics and to nurture and promote the professionalism of those engaged in these pursuits. the institute encourages original research, fosters dissemination of new…

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5
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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6
American Society of Civil Engineers Arizona Section

To advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest. To provide member societies with reliable information that affects the engineering profession. To provide a forum for engineering societies to exchange views on…

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7
Society of Architectural Historians

The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…

Arts & Culture
8
American Society of Civil Engineers Inc

To provide essential value to our members, their careers, our partners, and the public, asce will: facilitate the advancement of technology; encourage and provide the tools for lifelong learning; promote professionalism and the profession;…

Science & Tech
9
American Society of Civil Engineers National Capital Section

Advancement of Civil Engineering Profession

Science & Tech
10
Aia Honolulu

To organize and unite in fellowship the members of the architectural profession within the association; to promote the aesthetic, scientific and practical efficiency of the architectural profession; to advance the science and art of…

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11
Archaeological Institute of America

The archaeological institute of america (aia) promotes archaeological inquiry and public understanding of the material record of the human past to foster an appreciation of the diverse cultures and our shared humanity. the aia supports…

Arts & Culture
12
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Institute of Architects Los Angeles Chapter and the most unlike its peers is Move Gulf Coast Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAffordable Housing Construc…Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity College Foundatio…Women & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%48%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%25%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/201
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,364

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

140 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. 140 of the 203 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
138/140
Grantees still filing
105/140
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL ACCREDITING BOARD INC — $2,949,466 · EducationNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL ACCREDITING BOARD INCAIA FOUNDATION — $1,747,574 · EducationAIA FOUNDATION+31 more — $906,559 · Education+31 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $500,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NO…THE PURPOSE INSTITUTE — $394,000 · OtherTHE PURPOSE INSTITUTEUNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF MAYORS — $215,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER — $213,775 · Other+133 more — $3,772,431 · Other+133 moreAmerican Institute of Architecture Students Inc — $1,113,722 · Arts & CultureAmerican Instit…NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $315,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BUILDI…FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF THE AIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC — $131,400 · Arts & CultureFLORIDA ASSOCIA…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $65,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES — $62,239 · Arts & Culture+6 more — $134,000 · Arts & Culture+6 moreNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS — $402,000 · Community ImprovementAIA LARGE FIRM ROUND TABLE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementWISCONSIN SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS IN DBA AIA WISCONSIN — $19,500 · Community Improvement+10 more — $102,287 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS COLLEGE OF FELLOWS FUND INC — $240,450 · PhilanthropyBEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR HEALTH DESIGN INC — $190,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCharity Navigator — $125,000 · Human ServicesMississippi State University Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Human Services
Education$5,603,599Other$5,095,206Arts & Culture$1,821,861Community Improvement$548,787Philanthropy$250,450Housing & Shelter$195,000Human Services$130,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL ACCREDITING BOARD INC — $2,949,466 over 7y, 22% of budgetAIA FOUNDATION — $1,747,574 over 8y, 54% of budgetAmerican Institute of Architecture Students Inc — $1,113,722 over 8y, 44% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WASHINGTON DC & NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF MINORITY ARCHITECTS — $402,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM — $315,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS COLLEGE OF FELLOWS FUND INC — $240,450 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS LOS ANGELES CHAPTER — $213,775 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR HEALTH DESIGN INC — $190,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAssociation of Collegiate Schools of Architecture — $177,700 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetAIA CHICAGO — $158,775 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF ARCHITECTURAL REGISTRATION BOARDS — $145,713 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Innovation Foundation Inc — $135,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetFLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF THE AIA INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC — $131,400 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS — $125,797 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCharity Navigator — $125,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS CALIFORNIA — $114,948 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTexas Society of Architects — $102,185 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS — $86,900 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetAIA OREGON — $86,125 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetAE PRONET — $84,603 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE ATLANTA CHAPTER THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS INC — $81,450 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS — $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEVADA SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS — $75,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetBOSTON SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS — $71,725 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS PHILADELPHIA CHAPTER — $66,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES NATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE INTL COUNCIL ON MONUM & SITES — $62,239 over 2y, 10% of budgetHouston Architecture Foundation — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIA Pennsylvania A Society of American Institute of Architect — $45,800 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS - DALLAS CHAPTER — $36,700 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS MEMPHIS CHAPTER — $34,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $33,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $32,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seattle Chapter American Institute of Archite — $30,525 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAIA KANSAS INC — $30,150 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVES — $29,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAIA LOUISIANA — $29,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAmerican Institute of Architects Redwood Empire Chapter — $26,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS DETROIT CHAPTER — $26,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetWESTCHESTERMID-HUDSON CHAPTER AMER — $26,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAIA LARGE FIRM ROUND TABLE — $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budget
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.

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.

Aia Large Firm Round …American Institute of…Mortgage Bankers Asso…Graham Foundation for…Edison Electric Insti…American Council of L…American Chemical Soc…The Morris and Gwendo…AARPThe Trustees of Colum…Greater Washington Co…Folds of Honor Founda…
Aia Large Firm Round TableMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aia Large Firm Round Table · American Institute of Architects College of Fellows Fund Inc · Mortgage Bankers Association · Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts · Edison Electric Institute Inc · American Council of Learned Societies · American Chemical Society · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · AARP · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Folds of Honor 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 The American Institute of Architects 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • New Buildings Institute — 100% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 203 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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