California · Nonprofit
THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,510 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $155k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $452k
What The California Architectural Foundation does
Mission
The California Architectural Foundation promotes healthy and sustainable communities through support of research and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Bridging the academic and professional worlds, CAF facilitates public programming, including exhibitions, workshops, competitions and symposia; shares knowledge through publications, forums, and diverse media; supports scholarship through research and dialogue; builds strong partnerships and collaborations; and awards academic and professional excellence.
$34,934 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,934.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $380k to $482k (+27%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION’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 CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION.
“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
THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
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 THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION: 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 THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION?
- THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,510 to it, the largest being THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,510 in grants to THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION?
- THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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