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Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib

Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,500 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2017
$223k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$142k
Net assets
$45k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 63%
01What it does

What Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib does

Mission

ADPSR works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, and social justice. It produces programs for design professionals and the public, including conferences and lectures. It publishes books and sponsors exhibitions and media related to its mission.

As stated on its FY2017 Form 990.

Program

DJDS - fiscal sponsorship (child)

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

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

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib’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

Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.

NY
DE

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $142k to it.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,323 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2017

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In California

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04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib: 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 Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib?
Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,500 to it, the largest being SURDNA FOUNDATION INC ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $141,500 in grants to Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib.
Who is the largest funder of Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib?
SURDNA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Architects Designers Planners for Social Responsib find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2017 (financials across 2017–2017), 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