Illinois · Nonprofit
CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,070 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($140,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $88k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $180k
- Net assets
- $56k
What Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation does
Mission
To promote women in architecture through scholarships, recognition and educational events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Ladders to leadership - programs developed to promote gender equity in architectural leadership. Providing mid-career women with the tools, direction and encouragement to achieve higher leadership levels.
$39,470 spent76% of program spendingScholarships to students attending accredited universities are annually awarded based on project design, resume and recommendation submissions.
$12,000 spent23% of program spendingLifetime achievement and leadership awards are for women who have shown outstanding leadership and achievement in the field of architecture. The purpose is to elevate the stature of women in architecture.
$254 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $51,724.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $62k to $55k (−12%).
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.
100% of CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $32k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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 CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION’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
CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
92% 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 CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 93% · 2019 71% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 78% — 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
92% of CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION'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 $14k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $166k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: 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 CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION?
- CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION (Illinois) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $180,070 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($140,532). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $180,070 in grants to CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $140,532 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICAGO WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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