Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,031 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $867k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $619k
What American Society of Landscape Architects Fund Inc does
Mission
The asla fund invests in global, social, and environmental change through the art and science of landscape architecture. The fund supports educational programs, public awareness efforts, community initiatives, and the asla professional and student awards program. Together, these activities promote sustainable, resilient, and equitable landscapes while celebrating the profession's contributions to shaping healthier communities and environments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Asla awards and public recognition. Every year, the asla awards program shines a spotlight on the very best landscape architecture. In 2025, the program honored 35 professional award winners from 463 entries and 34 student award winners from 500 entries, celebrating the extraordinary range and quality of work across the profession. The awards celebrate projects that advance sustainability, resilience, and good design for all. They help raise public awareness of the critical role of the profession's voice and demonstrate the transformative power of landscape architecture.
$235,619 spent$217,010 earned by the program32% of program spendingEducational initiatives and public outreach. The asla fund is committed to advancing education and inspiring the next generation of landscape architects. In 2025, the fund found a way forward when federal support fell through, launching the inaugural design academy for k-12 educators at asla headquarters in washington, d.c. By equipping teachers from across the country to weave environmental design into their own classrooms, the program multiplies its impact far beyond the event itself. That reach extended further with schoolyards in bloom, a vibrant classroom resource bringing design-centered learning to k5 students through pollinators and the natural world - planting the seeds of a future generation of designers.
$390,244 spent$29,391 earned by the program53% of program spendingClimate action and research leadership.the asla fund continued to advance climate action and nature-based solutions in 2025, producing the landscape architecture 2040: climate & biodiversity action plan that speaks to biodiversity, carbon sequestration, adaptation, economic benefits, and more. The fund developed resources and programming to help professionals reframe the value of nature-based solutions for audiences who may not yet see their relevance - ensuring landscape architecture remains part of the conversation wherever decisions about the built and natural environment are made. That commitment is making a difference: landscape architects are better equipped than ever to demonstrate the real-world impact of their work, influence policy, and ensure that nature-based solutions are a foundation for how we design the world.
$110,446 spent15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $736,309.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $569k to $750k (+32%).
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: 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Torey Carter-Conneen
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Sulin Kotowicz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $10k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $2.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Society of Landscape Architects). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC raised.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC’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
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% 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
100% 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states 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.
Against its field
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Society of Landscape Architects · exempt
- Labash Conference Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,031 to it, the largest being RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $30,031 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC?
- RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FUND INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), 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