Rhode Island · Nonprofit
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,112,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,037,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design Inc does
Mission
To provide information to the public about art and design education at the college level and to conduct research, conferences, and symposia to help promote the quality of the member schools' offerings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Member support services - the association provides a range of member support services annually including organizing over a dozen professional development gatherings, providing staff and faculty members from member schools with access to best practices, expert speakers and relevant research; collecting and analyzing a range of data from member schools to aid in informed decision making; and managing the joint purchasing of shared products and services to deliver discounts to member schools.
$1,149,781 spent88% of program spendingPublic information - the association serves as a resource for high school art teachers and college guidance counselors. Additionally, the association maintains a public website providing current, comprehensive information on all its member schools for prospective students and their parents.
$152,646 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,302,427.
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 2023 to 2024, from $631k to $1.2M (+93%).
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Frances Bronet
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $250k → $63k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN 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
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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
ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC is better cushioned than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record.
- Department of Commerce$120k
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 ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN 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 Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC: 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 ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC?
- ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC (Rhode Island) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,112,500 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($1,037,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,112,500 in grants to ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,037,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES OF ART & DESIGN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. 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 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