The American Institute of Architects Inc Central Ny Chapter
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160955670
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2009
- Location
- Syracuse, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3154758563
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $84,482
- Expenses
- $49,589
- Assets
- $185,189
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DIANA ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
- MICHELLE FULLER (PAST-PRESIDENT)
- MELINDA GREEN (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
People named in this filing
- ANDREW SCHUSTER (STATE REP)
- DIANA ELLIOTT (PRESIDENT)
- ANTHONY DATTELLAS (COMMUNITY DIR)
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 AIA provides architectural and educational programs and resources to its members and the Central New York community through its Resource Center located in downtown Syracuse. AIA CNY is helping its members meet the New York State provision that now makes it mandatory for licensed professionals to maintain their license with continuing education learning units every year by providing lectures, seminars and other events on a monthly basis.
What it reported doing in 2025
Professional development - bring together local architects and designers to find ways to better the industry and practice of architecture.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 70
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 58.7%; rating input score 59
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 41.3%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.73; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 58.7% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $50K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 59/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.