Illinois · Nonprofit
ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION
ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,661 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $538k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $560k
- Net assets
- $901k
What Archi-Treasures Association does
Mission
Archi-treasures is an arts-based community development organization that uses participatory design to engage and strengthen urban communities. We partner architects, artists, educators and other professionals with community and neighborhood groups, citizens and students to facilitate creative urban design solutions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, archi-treasures produced participatory art and design projects in the riverdale, washington heights, grand boulevard, and kenwood community areas of chicago. Program art experiences and community engagement activities involved 200 youth, adult, and senior residents and local stakeholders in planning and developing temporary and permanent neighborhood space improvements and public art in common areas, while building and strengthening relationships among participants.
$184,894 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $184,894.
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 2021 to 2022, from $327k to $733k (+124%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 12% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 27% · 2022 47% · 2023 6% · 2024 34% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $50k → $172k.
2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION’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
ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
44% 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 ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 88% · 2019 63% · 2020 100% · 2021 83% · 2022 49% · 2023 44% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
20% of ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $46k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$46k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION: 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 ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION?
- ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION (Illinois) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $559,661 to it, the largest being Builders Vision Foundation ($225,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $559,661 in grants to ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION?
- Builders Vision Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $225,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCHI-TREASURES ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 10 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing