Lutyens Trust America Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 825182168
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Sugar Hill, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7703354678
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,113
- Expenses
- $109,862
- Assets
- $72,176
- Liabilities
- $97
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROBIN PRATER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ANTHONY BARNES (DIRECTOR)
- DOUGLAS C WRIGHT III (DIRECTOR)
- JUDITH PRAUSE (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The lutyens trust america is an educational charity, dedicated to enhancing appreciation, study, and conservation of the works of sir edwin lutyens.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Our third lutyens traveling fellowship was announced in january 2025 and awarded to trace chitwood in april 2025. His topic is "lutyens and the war cemetery buildings." the purpose of the traveling fellowship is to promote the appreciation and knowledge of the work of sir edwin lutyens by funding a period of individual travel and research on this work and legacy. The lutyens traveling fellowship provides a $7,000.00 award for emerging professionals in architecture, art history, interior design, historic preservation or the decorative arts. Fellows are expected to complete a travel program oriented towards academic research related to any aspect of the work of sir edwin lutyens.2. On march 27, 2025, paul knight, the recipient of the 2024 lutyens traveling fellowship presented a webinar on "hidden orders: the geometries of edwin lutyens." the webinar, which focused on the results of mr. Knight's research was well received. It was aired live for our members and interested listeners and then subsequently posted on our lutyens trust america website and our youtube channel.3. Webinar series on topics related to sir edwin lutyens. The webinars are posted on our website and on our lutyens trust america youtube channel.a. "lutyens's lodges: making an entrance", may 23, 2024 (panelists: oliver cope, stuart martin)b. "lutyens and the gardens of new delhi", july 25, 2024 (panelists: amita baviskar, swapna liddle)c. "drawing on glass with soap: lutyens, proportions, and perception", september 19, 2024 (panelists: edward ford, oliver cope)d. "silent witness: lutyens's memorials & cemeteries within the battlefields of the western front", november 21, 2024 (panelists: jon gedling, lynelle howson)e. "lutyens and voysey: unlikely friends", january 9, 2025 (panelist: clive aslet)f. "the future of st. Jude-on-the-hill at edwin lutyens's central square, hampstead garden suburb", february 13th, 2025 (panelists: ankie barnes, tom kligerman, revd. Emily koltveit, claire williams)g. "hidden orders: the geometries of edwin lutyens", march 27, 2025 (panelist: paul knight)h. All webinars were hosted and moderated by marcos lutyens and robin prater4. Provided content for you tube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/uc9vq0ujqsr9jrf9fv9prw8a). We currently (as of 2/6/2026) have 42 videos posted with 1.22 k subscribers. The videos range from 7.8k to 84 (posted 1 month ago) views. 5. Provided content for the lutyens trust america instagram page. (instagram.com.lutyens_trust_america/). We have 3,298 followers and 227 posts currently (as of 02/06/2026).6. Our members receive regular newsletters featuring articles written about edwin lutyens and related topics. The newsletters are also posted to the members only portion of our website.7. We have continued to work with the lutyens trust in the uk on a project known as the lutyens gazetteer. The aim is to produce a website with information and photographs of the over 800 projects designed by lutyens in his lifetime. There is currently no comprehensive listing of all his projects, so this will be of great benefit to lutyens's scholars as well the many architects, interior designers, landscape architects, and architecture enthusiasts that appreciate lutyens's work. A gazetteer agreement has been signed between the lutyens trust and the lutyens trust america which will allow for the continuation of the project. The website is online, but an official launch is expected by mid-2026.8. On september 26, 2024, lta sponsored an in person event in los angeles, California featuring our munstead wood video and a brief talk.9. On october 24, 2024, lta sponsored an in-person event at the madoo conservancy in the east hamptons. The event featured the munstead wood video along with a short talk by alejandro saralegui, madoo's director.10. We sponsored and arranged a tour "the arts and crafts architecture of lutyens and his contemporaries." the tour was primarily in surrey, u.k. (june 10-15, 2024)11. As a qualified continu
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 80% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 23
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -32.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 25.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $94K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.