Virginia · Nonprofit
The Design Foundation Inc
The Design Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,360 to it, the largest being Industrial Designers Society of America Inc ($85,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Design Foundation Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,826 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,826 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Arts Council of Fairfax County Inclocal
- The American Institute of Architectsportfolio match
- Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospaceportfolio match
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.
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.
11% of The Design Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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 Design Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
Where its funders are
100% of The Design Foundation Inc's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Arts Council of Fairfax County InclocalVA · funds 45 organizations near you
- The American Institute of Architectsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Seattle Prof Engineering Employees Assn Dba Soc of Prof Eng Empl in Aerospaceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadence Giving Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nafportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Richard and Jean Coyne Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mg2 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sathaye Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Narayanan Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ussga Memorial Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prosperity Denver Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like The Design Foundation Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Industrial Designers Society of America Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Design Foundation Inc: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds The Design Foundation Inc?
- The Design Foundation Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $85,360 to it, the largest being Industrial Designers Society of America Inc ($85,360). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Design Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $85,360 in grants to The Design Foundation Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of The Design Foundation Inc?
- Industrial Designers Society of America Inc is the largest funder on record, with $85,360 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Design Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 1funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing