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AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS

AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$347k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$348k
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Aia Charlotte a Section of the Nc Chapter American Institute Architects does

Mission

The mission of aia charlotte is to be the voice of the architecture profession dedicated to three purposes: serving its members, advancing their value, and improving the quality of the built environment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Organize and unite in fellowship members of the architect profession through conferences and meetings, in order to advance living standards of people through improvement of their environment.

  2. To activate with the public, through educational activities that promote the betterment of the profession.

  3. Provide education for the profession, to promote aesthetic, scientific, and practical efficiency, and the advancement of standards for the profession.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($255k) Expenses 100 ($269k) Net assets 100 ($248k)2018 Revenue 138 ($350k) Expenses 104 ($280k) Net assets 110 ($271k)2019 Revenue 135 ($343k) Expenses 120 ($323k) Net assets 129 ($320k)2020 Revenue 98 ($251k) Expenses 84 ($226k) Net assets 143 ($355k)2021 Revenue 123 ($314k) Expenses 76 ($205k) Net assets 168 ($415k)2022 Revenue 127 ($324k) Expenses 139 ($375k) Net assets 123 ($305k)2023 Revenue 126 ($320k) Expenses 115 ($310k) Net assets 138 ($341k)2024 Revenue 136 ($347k) Expenses 128 ($345k) Net assets 141 ($348k)
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Revenue (136)Expenses (128)Net assets (141)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $485k to $359k (−26%).

$325k
$341k
$378k
$407k
$485k
$359k
$400k
$397k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

74% of AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,439 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
$71k
’18
$19k
’19
$25k
’20
$109k
’21
−$51k
’22
$10k
’23
$2k
’24
3.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Kathleen Shelton

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1212121212121111
Joined·+1+4+2+2+8+0+3
No longer listed·1422813
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'19
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.

DC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2024.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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In North Carolina

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS?
AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $9,000 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($9,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $9,000 in grants to AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS.
Who is the largest funder of AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS?
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS is the largest funder on record, with $9,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AIA CHARLOTTE A SECTION OF THE NC CHAPTER AMERICAN INSTITUTE ARCHITECTS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing