New York · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,844,976 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN TR XXXXX3001 ($932,779). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $88M
What National Academy of Design does
Mission
The mission of the National Academy of Design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Art exhibitions:since 1825, the national academy has organized scholarly and exciting exhibitions of american art and architecture that focus on the work of individual artists and architects in its membership, as well as explore relevant, current important themes, events, and issues. In fy2024, we showed four exhibitions, including "drawing as practice," "sites of impermanence," "as told by its makers: recent acquisitions of contemporary art, and "191st annual: academy style." collections:the national academy maintains a collection of nearly 8,000 works of american art and architecture in addition to a historic archive of records, documents, and ephemera related to the academy's history and membership. In fy2024, the academy added 30 additional works to its collection.public programs:we provide public and educational programming to accompany and provide context for exhibitions and other activities at the national academy. Some programs from fy2024 included a series to accompany the exhibition, "drawing as practice" titled ; a drawing workshop with artist jenny polak; and a series of architecture talks and panels with national academician architect members.
$2,014,162 spentof which $50,500 as grants$79,765 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,014,162.
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 2018 to 2019, from $37M to $82M (+121%).
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 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gregory Wessner
Executive director
Board chair
Doug Polley
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $75k → $272k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 funders by total. 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
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 54% · 2019 99% · 2020 54% · 2021 43% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% — growing more concentrated.
“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
22% of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $145k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN
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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
16%
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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN: 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN?
- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN (New York) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,844,976 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN TR XXXXX3001 ($932,779). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,844,976 in grants to NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN?
- NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN TR XXXXX3001 is the largest funder on record, with $932,779 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN 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.
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 33 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