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ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,079,096 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,381,016). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$67k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$20M
Net assets
$0
6/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Royal College of Art USA Inc does

Mission

To support the arts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Grants made to the Royal College of Art in the UK in order to support its generation RCA Program.

    $283,678 spentof which $283,678 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $283,678.

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 ($415k) Expenses 100 ($26) Net assets 100 ($538k)2018 Revenue 348 ($1.4M) Expenses 6759635 ($1.8M) Net assets 42 ($227k)2019 Revenue 99 ($409k) Expenses 1492788 ($388k) Net assets 46 ($248k)2020 Revenue 616 ($2.6M) Expenses 23 ($6) Net assets 521 ($2.8M)2021 Revenue 3595 ($15M) Expenses 60721531 ($16M) Net assets 359 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 622 ($2.6M) Expenses 15388735 ($4.0M) Net assets 95 ($511k)2023 Revenue 51 ($213k) Expenses 1930404 ($502k) Net assets 41 ($222k)2024 Revenue 16 ($67k) Expenses 1113519 ($290k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (16)Expenses (1113519)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $248k to $2.8M (+1030%).

$538k
$227k
$248k
$2.8M
$1.9M
$511k
$222k
$0
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
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
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$415k
’17
−$312k
’18
$21k
’19
$2.6M
’20
−$872k
’21
−$1.4M
’22
−$289k
’23
−$222k
’24
5.3
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

Shaun Fradd

Executive Director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

2017201820192020202120222023
Listed6699897
Joined·+1+4+4+0+2+0
No longer listed·114112
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $350k → $492k.

6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% 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 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA 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

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC.

87%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 98% · 2022 89% · 2023 95% — 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.

How long its funders stay

20% of ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

99% of ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA 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 $157k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 2 states.

PA
CA

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

’19
’20
’21
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA 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 New York

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC?
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,079,096 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($17,381,016). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $20,079,096 in grants to ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC?
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,381,016 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART USA INC 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.

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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 8 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