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RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC

RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$4.0M
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$226k
Net assets
$8.0M
1/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 65%
01What it does

What Richardson Architecture Center Inc does

Mission

The lipsey architecture center buffalo (the center) explores excellence in architecture and city planning as demonstrated by buffalo's outstanding architectural heritage. Located in the richardson olmstead complex, the center will provide orientation, prompt inspiration, and serve as a gathering place to launch new ideas related to architecture, landscape, and design. Through exhibitions, tours, programs, and outreach, the center engages the public in buffalo's architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, and its role in culture and design literacy. The center fosters collaboration with organizations with the similar goal of activating buffalo's architecture, planning, and landscape. By providing a center to host exhibitions, events, and programs, the center actively collaborates with aligned groups in dialogue and shared programming.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Through exhibitions, tours, programs, and outreach, the center engages the public in buffalo's architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, and its role in culture and design literacy.

    $224,926 spent$9,361 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $224,926.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2019 Revenue 105 ($134k) Expenses 98 ($119k) Net assets 101 ($3.0M)2020 Revenue 53 ($68k) Expenses 79 ($96k) Net assets 100 ($3.0M)2021 Revenue 508 ($650k) Expenses 142 ($173k) Net assets 115 ($3.5M)2022 Revenue 241 ($308k) Expenses 125 ($152k) Net assets 121 ($3.6M)2023 Revenue 509 ($651k) Expenses 388 ($473k) Net assets 129 ($3.9M)2024 Revenue 465 ($595k) Expenses 209 ($254k) Net assets 142 ($4.3M)2025 Revenue 3120 ($4.0M) Expenses 247 ($301k) Net assets 265 ($8.0M)
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Revenue (3120)Expenses (247)Net assets (265)Peer revenue range

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 $4.3M to $8.4M (+94%).

$3.2M
$3.1M
$3.0M
$3.5M
$3.7M
$3.9M
$4.3M
$8.4M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 84% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$6k
’18
$15k
’19
−$27k
’20
$477k
’21
$156k
’22
$178k
’23
$341k
’24
$3.7M
’25
32
months of
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

Paris Roselli

Executive director

Board chair

Judith C Lipsey

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.

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Listed1611111111101010
Joined·+3+0+0+2+0+0+0
No longer listed·8002100
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $750 → $200k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% 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 RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER 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

RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% 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

89% 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 RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC.

89%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 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

89% of RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER 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 $26k that is directly attributable, 96% of it comes from New York funders.

NY
NC

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

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’21
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $200k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin92% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve32.4mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)63% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

75% of spending goes to programs.

Program 75%Management 24%Fundraising 2%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Richardson Center Corporation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC?
RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $225,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $225,500 in grants to RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RICHARDSON ARCHITECTURE CENTER INC find more funders?
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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 2018–2025), and the filings of 4 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing