Virginia · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,380 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($271,305). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $520k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $301k
- Net assets
- $771k
What Community Association Institute Research Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's mission is to research and analyze the operation of common interest communities and to study emerging issues and trends in this field. To achieve this mission, the organization conducts and commissions research, collects data, issues surveys, holds focus groups, issues publications and awards scholarships. Incorporated as an exempt, nonprofit entity in 1975, the foundation is the only organization in the united states that conducts industry research and makes information available to people involved in community association governance and management.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research projects: the foundation produces a variety of accurate, insightful, and timely information, including: -needs-based research to help community association stakeholders address specific challenges and prepare for emerging issues; -publish best practices reports on critical topics like energy efficiency, governance, financial operations, and strategic planning; -provide research scholarships for graduate students; -collect historical data on the development, operation, and management of common-interest communities, including surveys analyzing homeowner satisfaction and community manager compensation.
$231,845 spentof which $5,040 as grants$25,266 earned by the program82% of program spendingMeetings & conference: as part of its mission, the foundation provides authoritative research and analysis on community association trends, issues, and operations. Foundation staff and volunteers present this information at cai and industry events, such as the cai annual conference, community association law seminar, and ceo-mc retreat, by offering education sessions and speaking with conference attendees. Program topics include cutting-edge foundation research on technology and cyber security, aging infrastructure, non-potable water, natural disasters, ethics, and many other important items in the community association industry.
$46,904 spent17% of program spendingMarketing: the foundation employs a variety of methods to share information on community association trends, issues, and operations. Current programs and initiatives are highlighted on the foundation website, shared in the catalyst email distribution list, and promoted on the foundation youtube channel and through advertisements in industry publications. In addition, foundation research is distributed through cai's numerous communication channels, including email marketing, magazine and newsletter articles, and various social media platforms including facebook, twitter, and youtube.
$2,646 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $281,395.
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.
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 $653k to $774k (+19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Dawn M Bauman Cae
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $9k → $89k.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH 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
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 64% · 2023 89% — 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
100% of COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $301k 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.
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH 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 COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $301,380 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($271,305). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $301,380 in grants to COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $271,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INSTITUTE RESEARCH FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 3 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