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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.

$357k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$297kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$20kEducation$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$10kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k18 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VA COMMEMORATIONS INC$50,000
AMERICA250PA$50,000
TOWN OF LEXINGTON$25,000
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL & NATURAL RESOURCES$25,000
THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
THE FORT TICONDEROGA$25,000
AK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$25,000
CNMI (NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLAND) A250 COMMISSION$11,500
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACUSETTS$10,000
IOWA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
THE MISSISSIPPI AMERICA250 FOUNDATION$10,000
IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
GUAM AMERICA250$10,000
GEORGIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%STATE OF ARIZONA: $10k → 11%DELAWARE HERITAGE COMMISION: $10k → 11%TOWN OF LEXINGTON: $25k → 8%NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 13%IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 8%MN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%PHILADELPHIA250: $50k → 22%THE OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%HAWAII AMVETS SERVICE FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%THE FORT TICONDEROGA: $25k → 13%TEXAS STATE HISTORY MUSEUM: $10k → 10%TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%DC TREASURY: $10k → 14%IOWA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%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%RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 14%UTAH DEPT OF CCE: $10k → 8%GEORGIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $10k → 14%HISTORY COLORADO: $10k → 12%IN SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION: $10k → 9%THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25k → 15%COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACUSETTS: $10k → 9%WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE AND HISTORY: $10k → 18%THE STATE OF ALASKA: $10k → 10%ILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $10k → 14%THE MISSISSIPPI AMERICA250 FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%VA COMMEMORATIONS INC: $50k → 22%SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NEVADA STATE OF NV CONTROLLER: $10k → 13%BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $10k → 19%PRESERVATION MARYLAND: $10k → 19%PHILADELPHIA250: $25k → 22%1921 TULSA RACE MASSACRE: $10k → 15%THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 15%WASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 9%PHILADELPHIA250: $25k → 22%AMERICA250PA: $50k → 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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 sends the money.

About 6% of America250org Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

America250org Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$195k · 3 repeat orgs$529k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1072% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$195k
$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1072%
0%

Still filing today

100%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $272k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • U2
    USA 250 Incorporated
    3× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue ×12
  • VC
    VIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue ×148 · 100% of their budget
  • OH
    OHIO HISTORY CONNECTION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • CC
    CARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue +73%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • IS
    INDIANA SEMIQUINCENTENNIAL COMMISSION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
3
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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4
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
5
Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society (GHS) is the premier independent statewide institution responsible for collecting, examining, and teaching Georgia history. GHS houses the oldest and most distinguished collection of materials related exclusively…

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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
7
The New Jersey Historical Society

The new jersey historical society collects, preserves, teaches, and interprets new jersey history through our archives, research library, and educational programs. we do so in the belief that an understanding and appreciation of historical…

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8
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
9
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
10
Soc for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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Yarmouth Historical Society

To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oregon Historical Society; 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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
8/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USA 250 Incorporated: $100,000 · Arts & CultureUSA 250 IncorporatedVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INCOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureOHIO HISTORY CONNECTIONTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATIONCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more: $120,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETYNORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESOURCES: $25,000 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL AND CUL…CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $25,000 · OtherCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARYCNMI (NORTHERN MARIANAS ISLAND) A250 COMMISSION: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherDC PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $10,000 · OtherCAPE COD COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10,000 · OtherNC DEPT OF CULTURAL &: $10,000 · OtherSTATE OF KANSAS - DEPT OF COMMERCE: $10,000 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherNEVADA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherWYOMING GAME & FISH DEPARTMENT: $10,000 · OtherWI DEPT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: $10,000 · OtherState Of Alaska: $10,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF COLORADO THE COLORADO STATE MUSEUM: $10,000 · OtherGUAM AMERICA250: $10,000 · OtherUTAH DEPT OF CCE: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS STATE PRESERVATION BOARD: $10,000 · OtherNEBRASKA GAME AND PARKS COMMISSION: $10,000 · OtherTHE MISSISSIPPI AMERICA250 FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF CULTURE HISTORY: $10,000 · OtherIdaho Public Television: $10,000 · OtherState of Arizona: $10,000 · OtherSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $50,000 · Community ImprovementTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMVETS HAWAII SERVICE FOUNDATION CORP: $10,000 · EducationTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST: $10,000 · Education
Arts & Culture$357,000Other$296,500Community Improvement$50,000Philanthropy$30,000Education$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSA 250 Incorporated: $100,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetVIRGINIA COMMEMORATIONS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPhiladelphia Visitor Center Corporation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO HISTORY CONNECTION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARPENTERS' COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIOWA HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHistorical Society of Michigan: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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 budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CITIZENSHIP TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization America250org Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from America250org Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home