Minnesota · Nonprofit
AIA MINNESOTA
AIA MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,021 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $68k
- Net assets
- $848k
What Aia Minnesota does
Mission
See schedule o. The american institute of architects minnesota, founded in 1892, is the professional association for the architecture profession in minnesota. As a state component of aia national, Aia Minnesota provides services to local aia chapters located in minnesota, and to the minnesota architectural foundation. Aia mn produces a regional conference, publishes a digital and print annual "enter" magazine, lobbies on behalf of the profession at the state legislature, and delivers continuing education to members.mission: advancing a vital profession, vibrant communities, and architecture that endures.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Membership services: benefits are provided to more than 2,300 minnesota members of the architecture profession through the operation of the association and its programs. These services include the work of the association board of directors, programs, seminars and events for networking and continuing education, public outreach to bring attention to the work of architects and architectural designers, and government advocacy to address the needs of the profession and to create a better built environment for people and the planet.
Professional development: the association conducts a variety of professional development programs throughout the year that are designed to stimulate creative thinking about the design industry and to educate people about changes in approaches, technologies, and codes which directly apply to architecture. These programs are operated and funded by the association and, on occasion, are sponsored by outside parties. All of these programs are designed for the benefit of the membership and related professions.continued on schedule o. In addition, the association's annual conference includes a product exhibition and continuing education programs, which are designed to benefit the members as well as those involved in or interested in the architecture profession.
Digital and print annual "enter" magazine (formerly architecture minnesota magazine): the association publishes the digital publication and print annual titled "enter" as a public relations tool for all minnesota architects and architectural designers. It is distributed to decision-makers in the private, public, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors in order to educate on the field of architecture and to promote minnesota architects and architectural designers for future consideration in design work. The magazine sells advertising to companies that would like to have their products better known to minnesota architects, architectural designers, and other readers of enter.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.4M (+27%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 25% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Mary-Margaret Zindren
EVP/executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $15k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $25k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Minnesota Architectural Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money AIA MINNESOTA raised.
From the IRS filings of AIA MINNESOTA’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.
How concentrated its funding is
AIA MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AIA MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 60% · 2020 92% · 2021 100% · 2022 75% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
51% of AIA MINNESOTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $33k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like AIA MINNESOTA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Minnesota Architectural Foundation · exempt
- Minnesota Architects Political Action Committee · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AIA MINNESOTA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AIA MINNESOTA?
- AIA MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $68,021 to it, the largest being THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AIA MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $68,021 in grants to AIA MINNESOTA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AIA MINNESOTA?
- THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AIA MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 3 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