Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Trust for Architectural Easements
Trust for Architectural Easements (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being Capitol Historic Trust Inc ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $125k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Trust for Architectural Easements does
Mission
The Trust will be a leading force in the preservation of America's architectural heritage. The Trust accepts donations of historic preservation easements to protect buildings.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Stewardship Program: The Trust inspects each of the properties on which it holds an easement at least once every other year, and compares the condition of the property to baseline photographs on file to ensure that the property is in compliance with the terms of the easement. In 2018, the Trust monitored the properties for which an easement was granted between 2001 and 2010. No easement donations were accepted between 2011 and 2017. One easement donation was accepted in 2018. In addition, the Trust reviews and responds to change requests from owners seeking the Trust's consent, as required by the terms of the easement, to make alterations to their properties. The Trust's decisions regarding alterations conform with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. The Trust also tracks changes in ownership of easement-protected properties by reviewing land records and communicating regularly with property owners. Communications with potential buyers of easement-encumbered properties and their representatives reinforce the owner's obligations under the terms of the easement, as well as the Trust's rights and…
$99,910 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $99,910.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $3.5M to $2.9M (−18%).
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.
14% of Trust for Architectural Easements’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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
Bradley Runyan Esquire
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 Trust for Architectural Easements’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
Trust for Architectural Easements leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% 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
100% 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 Trust for Architectural Easements.
“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
100% of Trust for Architectural Easements's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Trust for Architectural Easements has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Trust for Architectural Easements
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
19%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Trust for Architectural Easements: 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 Trust for Architectural Easements?
- Trust for Architectural Easements (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $85,000 to it, the largest being Capitol Historic Trust Inc ($75,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Trust for Architectural Easements have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $85,000 in grants to Trust for Architectural Easements.
- Who is the largest funder of Trust for Architectural Easements?
- Capitol Historic Trust Inc is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Trust for Architectural Easements find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing