New York · Nonprofit
BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC
BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,076 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $637k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $89k
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation Inc does
Mission
Advancing the knowledge and recognition of women's contributions to architecture.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bwaf advances its mission to acknowledge, cultivate, and value women's contributions to the built environment through diverse programming. The bevy leadership awards convene leaders across the industry to honor individuals who exemplify bwaf's mission. Built by women drives recognition through a juried mapping project that celebrates the work of women architects, landscape architects, engineers, contractors, and developers in select cities.bwaf cultivates leadership and opportunity through professional programs that support women from early career to industry leadership. The emerging leaders program provides cohort-based professional development that builds confidence and long-term networks. The emerging firms program offers skill-building and networking that empower firms to lead cultural change in the building industry. Community-building initiatives such as friends of bwaf create spaces for connection across disciplines, while the industry leaders roundtable equips firms with research and action-oriented strategies to advance institutional change.bwaf works to value women's contributions by documenting and sharing their stories through public facing programming. The pioneering…
$264,025 spent$122,905 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $264,025.
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 2022 to 2023, from $720k to $1.7M (+140%).
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 14% · 2023 5% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Tizziana Bladenebro
Executive director (as of feb 2024)
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York Building Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION 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
BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 50% · 2022 50% · 2023 50% — 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
33% of BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$100k
- National Endowment for the Arts$30k
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 BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
52% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
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 BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION 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 BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC?
- BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $89,076 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($35,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $89,076 in grants to BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $35,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEVERLY WILLIS ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 8 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