California · Nonprofit
Architecture Advocacy
Architecture Advocacy (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,625 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $57k
What Architecture Advocacy does
Mission
Charitable organization
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Community Organizing & Events: workshops outreach activities and public events that uplift local knowledge celebrate untold stories inform industry professionals about best community led design practices and influence proposed developments. 30 events. 15 industry presentations. -500 participants.
$51,220 spentof which $3,834 as grants74% of program spendingDesign Builds: workshops with community members that co-create small-scale neighborhood improvements such as seating storage and gardens. 3 design builds.45 participants.
$12,202 spentof which $2,550 as grants18% of program spending30 Leadership. Development: trains young professionals to facilitate community engagement and participate in grassroots justice issues. -80 participants
$5,366 spent8% of program spendingArchitecture Workshops: Educate youth residents in design architecture and urban planning through hands-on activities. 35 participants
$123 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,911.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $24k to $58k (+144%).
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.
37% of Architecture Advocacy’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 Architecture Advocacy’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
Architecture Advocacy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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 Architecture Advocacy.
“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
78% of Architecture Advocacy'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 $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k 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.
Against its field
Architecture Advocacy runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Architecture Advocacy
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Architecture Advocacy: 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 Architecture Advocacy?
- Architecture Advocacy (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,625 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Architecture Advocacy have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,625 in grants to Architecture Advocacy.
- Who is the largest funder of Architecture Advocacy?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST 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 Architecture Advocacy 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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