Center for Architecture

Analysis

Center for Architecture is a registered charity in United States, based in Philadelphia, PA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Center for Architecture reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.4m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 6 years on record, from December 2018 to December 2023, income grew from $770k to $1.2m (+59%), an average of +9.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 132%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Center for Architecture sits at the 78th percentile: it is larger than about 78% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 81st percentile, and in the 80th percentile within PA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include The Society for Classical Studies ($1.2m), Rochester Msa Building Company ($1.2m) and Black in Ai ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 30% and program service revenue 41% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $451k. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $2.9m, net assets of $446k.