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THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,592,718 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,209,925). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $7.9M
What The Architectural League of New York does
Mission
The Architectural League of New York supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. As a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on schedule o) converging crises of racism, inequity, and climate change, in service of a more livable and just world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovating research and programming:the league frequently partners with individuals and teams working on important topics in architecture, to support their work, facilitate support for their research and creative projects, and increase knowledge in the disciplines of architecture and design. Projects range across a very wide spectrum of contemporary and historical areas of interest in architecture, design, and planning, from encouraging the careers of young designers from communities underrepresented in the design professions, to innovative explorations of how to reduce waste and recycle resources in the architectural design process.
$573,927 spentof which $458,355 as grants34% of program spendingLecture series and competitions:public lectures and competitions that identify and present the work and ideas of some of the most talented individuals and firms practicing architecture in new york city, the united states, and the world comprise a central part of the architectural league's activities. Programs with a substantial national and international profile include the league prize for young architects and designers; emerging voices; and the current work series of lectures by architects, designers, engineers, and artists of international stature. After hours offer presentations and tours of architectural offices and projects, to introduce audiences to the wide variety of ways of organizing contemporary practice. These programs are (continued on schedule o) contextualized with significant digital editorial content, including individual and firm profiles, interviews, and specially designed digital presentations of design work. In fy25 the league maintained its very active program schedule, using both in-person and online program formats.
$373,097 spent$11,940 earned by the program22% of program spendingUrban omnibus online publication:the league's award-winning online publication, urban omnibus, raises new questions, illuminates diverse perspectives, and documents creative projects to advance the collective work of citymaking, challenging its readers to expand their capacity to see, understand, and shape new york city. Uo is free to all readers, and its topics and perspectives are relevant to cities everywhere. Urban omnibus's editorial approach accommodates different reading habits and explores topics with a balance of breadth and depth. Multi-part, topical, cross-disciplinary series deeply engage complex topics, standalone features, in various formats, and by individuals ranging from historians to artists to geographers to (continued on schedule o)architects to activists, examine the practices, skills, institutions, and geographical arrangements that shape the physical environment and experience of the city. All features have a long life online, and are often accessed by students, teachers, researchers, and all kinds of citymakers long after their original publication.
$355,329 spent$30,790 earned by the program21% of program spendingOther league programs address urgent issues in how the design disciplines are constituted and function in society. The league's mentorship program works with schools that serve a large number of students from backgrounds underrepresented in the design disciplines, to help introduce students to architectural practice, and to provide practical and strategic advice as students start their careers. As part of its strong ongoing commitment to developing the capacity of architects to respond to climate change, the league catalyzed the development of and continues to work with the us branch of the global architects declare movement, which seeks, through information sharing and collective action, to change the culture of practice and provide tools for effective action on climate change, biodiversity loss, and social injustice.
$365,813 spent$83,885 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,668,166.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $5.1M to $8.9M (+75%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 11% · 2019 9% · 2020 9% · 2021 17% · 2022 15% · 2023 8% · 2024 15% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Jacob Moore
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $113k → $1.6M.
6 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $20k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK raised.
From the IRS filings of THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK’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
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
67% 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 THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 41% · 2019 37% · 2020 53% · 2021 52% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — 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
53% of THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
67% of THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK'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 $1.5M that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M 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.
Government funding THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $265k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$265k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK?
- THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,592,718 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,209,925). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $4,592,718 in grants to THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,209,925 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 30 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