North Carolina · Nonprofit
MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC
MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,459 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $618k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $16k
- Net assets
- $515k
What Modernist Archive Inc does
Mission
M.a., inc is a private nc 501(c)3 npo committed to documenting, preserving & promoting modernist architecture. Ncmodernist/usmodernist is m.a. Inc's award-winning educational archive of several thousand modernist houses & their architects in nc/america. The site allows the public to remember & revive the areas's legacy of great architecture. M.a., inc hosts popular modernist house tours, movies & trips, giving the public access to the most exciting residential architecture, past & present. Our events raise awareness, connect people with great design & help preserve these exceptional "works of art" for future generations. The significant modernist houses & architects; preservation of nc modernist houses through educating the public, creating awareness & keeping these homes occupied; and promoting new residential modernist construction, furthering the art form for future generations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Usmodernist.org and ncmodernist.org are award-winning archives of over 25,000 modernist houses and 400 architects. The sites allow the public to research and preserve america's legacy of innovative design. During 2024 modernist archive added over 2000 important modernist houses to the archive and scanned over 365,000 pages of architecture magazines. In addition to maintaining and growing the archives, modernist archive hosts popular movies, tours, and other events, giving the public access to the most exciting residential architecture, past and present, to preserve these "livable works of art" for future generations. During 2024 modernist archive was involved in modernist house tours and other events to over 1000 people and led tours to london, brussels, amsterdam, and palm springs.
$354,545 spentof which $1,632 as grants$427,062 earned by the program72% of program spendingModernist archive creates a breadth of awareness across america by engaging media influencers and academia. During 2024 modernist archive produced 52 new episodes of the long running podcast usmodernist radio, a weekly newsletter going out to over 64,000 people a week and maintained a north carolina for sale database to publicize available mordernist houses for sale or rent.
$114,554 spent$117,038 earned by the program23% of program spendingModernist archive hosted the 13th annual george matsumoto prize for excellence in modernist home design, a competition for north carolina houses and architects.
$20,241 spent$2,148 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $489,340.
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 2021 to 2022, from $312k to $399k (+28%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
George M Smart Jr
Chairman/CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $3k → $197.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MODERNIST ARCHIVE 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
MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
54% 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 MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — 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
54% of MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC'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 $8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k 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
MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MODERNIST ARCHIVE 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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 MODERNIST ARCHIVE 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 MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC?
- MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,459 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($8,520). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,459 in grants to MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $8,520 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MODERNIST ARCHIVE INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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