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America250org Inc

To commemorate the united states of america's 250th anniversary with inclusive programs that inspire americans to renew and strengthen our daring experiment in democracy.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Arts & Culture$297kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$20kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA250$25,000
BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION$10,000
WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
HAWAII AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION$10,000
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE AND HISTORY$10,000
STATE OF MONTANA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
STATE OF ARIZONA$10,000
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR ARKANSAS HERITAGE AND HISTORY$10,000
STATE OF WYOMING SPCR$10,000
ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC$10,000
THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM$10,000
CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STATE OF ARIZONA: $10k → 11%DELAWARE HERITAGE COMMISION: $10k → 11%NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 13%PHILADELPHIA250: $50k → 22%THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%HAWAII AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM: $10k → 10%1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE: $10k → 15%HISTORIC SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN: $10k → 9%THE CITIZENSHIP TRUST: $10k → 7%STATE OF KANSAS - DEPT OF COMMERCE: $10k → 14%CONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $10k → 7%UTAH DEPT OF CCE: $10k → 8%HISTORY COLORADO: $10k → 12%IN SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION: $10k → 9%THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE AND HISTORY: $10k → 18%ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $10k → 14%STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%PRESERVATION MARYLAND: $10k → 19%PHILADELPHIA250: $25k → 22%PHILADELPHIA250: $25k → 22%THE CARPENTER'S COMPANY: $17k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of America250org Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

America250org Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Indiana Historical Society

Since 1831, the indiana historical society has been indiana's storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. a nonprofit membership organization, the ihs also…

Arts & Culture
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Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
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Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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Rochester Historical Society

The purpose of the Rochester Historical Society is to seek out, collect, preserve and restore those materials, records, and artifacts which relate to the history of Rochester.

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Howard County Historical Society

To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county

Arts & Culture
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Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture
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Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
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American Antiquarian Society

Supports and maintains a research library of american history and culture. the american antiquarian society cultivates a deeper understanding of the american past, grounded in its ever-growing collection of printed and manuscript sources.…

Education
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Society of Architectural Historians

The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…

Arts & Culture
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Washington County Historical Society

Discover, preserve, and celebrate the history of washington county, arkansas, and to share that heritage with others.

Arts & Culture
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United States Capitol Historical Society

Today, with the formal approval of congress, the society continues exploring and instituting new and creative ways to bring the fascinating story of the capitol, its institutions and america's unique history to people across the nation and…

Arts & Culture
12
Iowa Historical Foundation

Promoting, for the benefit and education of the general public, the preservation and interpretation of the history of the state of iowa.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Amvets Hawaii Service Foundation Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

USA 250 Incorporated — $100,000 · Arts & CultureUSA 250 IncorporatedCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $17,000 · Arts & CultureCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIACONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHistorical Society of Michigan — $10,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFoundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureINDIANA SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOT…WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE HISTORY — $10,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE HISTO…UTAH DEPT OF CCE — $10,000 · OtherUTAH DEPT OF CCETEXAS STATE PRESERVATION BOARD — $10,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE PRESERVATION BOARDNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION — $10,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSIONIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES — $10,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SER…State of Arizona — $10,000 · OtherState of ArizonaWASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETYWI DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS — $10,000 · OtherWI DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRSNC DEPT OF CULTURAL & — $10,000 · OtherNC DEPT OF CULTURAL &STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM — $10,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO TH…STATE OF KANSAS - DEPT OF COMMERCE — $10,000 · OtherSTATE OF KANSAS - DEPT OF COMMERCEWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT — $10,000 · OtherWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENTTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST — $10,000 · EducationAMVETS HAWAII SERVICE FOUNDATION CORP — $10,000 · EducationTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$217,000Other$140,000Education$20,000Philanthropy$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUSA 250 Incorporated — $100,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA — $17,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistorical Society of Michigan — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundation for Arkansas Heritage and History Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN5.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization America250org Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 50%
  • Connecticut Humanities Council Inc — 96% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
  • Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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