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INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$80k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$-19843
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What International Society of Furniture Designers does

Mission

The organization is dedicated to advancing, improving and supporting the profession of furniture design and its positive impact in the marketplace.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The organization is dedicated to advancing, improving and supporting the profession of furniture design and its positive impact in the marketplace.

  2. The organization is dedicated to advancing, improving and supporting the profession of furniture design and its positive impact in the marketplace.

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($99k) Expenses 100 ($112k) Net assets 100 ($122k)2018 Revenue 98 ($97k) Expenses 101 ($114k) Net assets 86 ($105k)2020 Revenue 90 ($89k) Expenses 103 ($115k) Net assets 50 ($61k)2021 Revenue 105 ($104k) Expenses 86 ($97k) Net assets 56 ($68k)2022 Revenue 81 ($80k) Expenses 121 ($137k) Net assets 7 ($9k)2023 Revenue 134 ($133k) Expenses 139 ($156k) Net assets -12 ($-14730)2024 Revenue 134 ($132k) Expenses 126 ($142k) Net assets -20 ($-24173)2025 Revenue 80 ($80k) Expenses 67 ($75k) Net assets -16 ($-19843)
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Revenue (80)Expenses (67)Net assets (-16)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $68k to $9k (−87%).

$122k
$105k
$61k
$68k
$9k
$6k
$5k
$13k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$14k
’17
−$17k
’18
−$27k
’20
$7k
’21
−$56k
’22
−$23k
’23
−$9k
’24
$4k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Liz Moore

Chairman

As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $5k.

From the IRS filings of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS’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

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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

60% 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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS.

60%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
North Carolina out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS

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 North Carolina

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS: 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 INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS?
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,500 to it, the largest being HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $12,500 in grants to INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS.
Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS?
HIGH POINT CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF FURNITURE DESIGNERS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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