Texas · Nonprofit
Austin Center for Design
Austin Center for Design (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $30k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $20k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Austin Center for Design does
Mission
To transform society through design and design education by developing design knowledge directed towards all forms of social and humanitarian problems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Austin Center for Design embraces an educational pedagogy focused on empathy, abductive reasoning, and rapid prototyping. All of these core pillars stand upon a foundation of relevance of impact: focusing on problems worth solving.
$64,717 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,717.
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 $49k to $8k (−83%).
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: 2020 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Austin Center for Design’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Austin Center for Design’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Austin Center for Design's grant income comes from Texas funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Austin Center for Design's revenue fell 76% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Austin Center for Design
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Austin Center for Design: 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 Austin Center for Design?
- Austin Center for Design (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ($20,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Austin Center for Design have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $20,000 in grants to Austin Center for Design.
- Who is the largest funder of Austin Center for Design?
- BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU 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 Austin Center for Design find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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