New York · Nonprofit
THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC
THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,078,043 to it, the largest being THE BENTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Inc does
Mission
The icaa's mission is to advance the appreciation and practice of the principles of traditional architecture and its allied arts by engaging educators, professionals, students, and enthusiasts through education, publications, and awards programs in new york city and across its 15 chapters.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The institute of classical architecture and art (icaa) is the leading national nonprofit educational organization dedicated to advancing the practice and appreciation of the classical tradition in architecture, urbanism, and the allied arts. Under the heading academic programs the icaa has developed a wide variety of virtual and in-person course offerings, including studio-based seminars, intensives, lectures, and travel drawing tours. By offering a variety of programs that are accessible to practicing professionals, students, and enthusiasts, the icaa aims to educate all individuals interested in mastering the language of classical design.
$1,763,114 spent$237,556 earned by the program64% of program spendingThe icaa has professional and general memberships. Membership includes access to lectures, private tours, publications, continuing education, dynamic classes, and other events specially curated by the organization. For professionals, we offer the added benefit of listing on our website and in a printed professional directory. Our members include more than 3,000 professional firms and individuals with over 18,000 subscribers. Our professional members include many of the top 100 classical architects in practice today, and many notable members in interior design, landscape design, as well as fine artists, artisans, manufacturers, and construction.
$266,899 spent10% of program spendingCommunications occupy an important role in the icaa, as illustrated by the popularity of its recently redesigned website, www.classicist.org, the readership and interest in the classicist, the icaa's annual architectural journal, and the books reprinted through the classical america series in art and architecture, in addition to our expanded efforts on social media, through instagram, twitter, and facebook. In recent years, the icaa has also developed an extensive video program, taping nearly all public programs and creating original content, including the documentary series, design in mind, which is aired on pbs affiliates nation-wide. While day- to-day communications, including the icaa's press efforts and online presence are managed by staff, special projects, the classicist, and books are overseen by committees of the board, active volunteer groups which are composed of board members, staff, and professionals in the field. The communications committee, a standing committee tasked with ad-hoc communications projects, has helped to develop a content management plan and provides guidance on branding and other communications. The classicist committee selects content and oversees…
$435,361 spent$19,056 earned by the program16% of program spendingLegacy grants program:thanks to a generous grant from the gerard b. Lambert foundation, the institute of classical architecture & art was proud to present first-of-its-kind programming in landscape architecture for designers, students, and enthusiasts, with particular emphasis on educating the next generation: the bunny mellon curricula. This curricula, the first to be named in honor of bunny mellon, honors her commitment to landscape design, and her deeply held belief that architecture is firmly linked to its surrounding landscape. The richard h. Driehaus curricula for the built environment endowment fund has given the icaa the resources to regularly update and expand its educational curricula and programming, particularly as new issues or areas of concern arise in architectural design. This initiative will launch new offerings regarding current issues like urbanism, sustainability, and healthy cities still highlighting the importance of historic preservation and precedent, especially how it pertains to shared public spaces. With the receipt of generous grants from the orville gordon browne foundation, the icaa began work on a redesigned website, classicist.org with sophisticated…
$282,833 spent$16,100 earned by the program10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,748,207.
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.
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 $7.6M to $10M (+33%).
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.
88% of THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Melissa Delvecchio
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $183k → $1.2M.
11 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $162k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art Southern). These are real filings, and they are not money THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC raised.
From the IRS filings of THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. 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 INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 27% · 2019 60% · 2020 55% · 2021 42% · 2022 25% · 2023 42% — 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
51% of THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Against its field
THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC?
- THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,078,043 to it, the largest being THE BENTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,800,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $7,078,043 in grants to THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC?
- THE BENTON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART 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 61 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