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American Historical Association
The AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION provides leadership for the discipline and promotes the critical role of historical thinking in public life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $37,959 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $176,889 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $138,930 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES | $37,959 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JNJOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION4× · 2019–2022 · $927k · revenue +213%
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER2× · 2023–2024 · $181k · revenue +14%- NCNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES2× · 2023–2025 · $92k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- MHMORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -10% · 27% of their budget
- ACALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +33%
- ACAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue 0% · 45% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education
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…
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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…
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)…
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Refusing to Forget. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 73 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SING SING PRISON MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE ↗
- Who funds THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Berkshire Conference of Women Historians ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER HISTORY & CULTURE ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Madison County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds RECKONING INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP ↗
- Who funds REFUSING TO FORGET ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Roebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION CULTURELLE ET HISTORIQUE DU MONT-CARMEL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE CHARNLEY-PERSKY HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC ↗
- Who funds LANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Collections & Stories of American Muslims Inc ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds WALKER COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND ALUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds OVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SOUTH END HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART & HISTO RY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New York Council for the Humanities · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 American Historical Association 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.
- Roebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum — 21% of income from government
- Vermont Granite Museum of Barre — 19% of income from government
- The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture Inc — 8% of income from government
- Lane County Historical Society — 5% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 2% of income from government
- Amelia Island Museum of History Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Council for the Social Studies — 0% of income from government
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.