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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.

$177k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MEducation$1.2MEmployment$460kSocial Science$181kEnvironment$58kInternational$51kScience & Tech$18k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $37,959, the rows itemized in this filing. The $176,889 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $138,930 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$37,959
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES$37,959
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $56k → 12%MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75k → 11%SOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE: $53k → 22%WESTERN ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN HISTORIANS: $30k → 14%PUTNAM HISTORY MUSEUM: $65k → 6%SING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $66k → 9%CAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $51k → 13%HISTORY CENTER IN TOMPKINS COUNTY: $30k → 16%AMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PRODUCTIONS INC: $27k → 17%INTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $28k → 8%URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $59k → 14%LANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $48k → 15%SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: $37k → 7%JOHN GARDNER INSTITUTE: $294k → 13%WALKER COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC: $37k → 15%BAPTIST HISTORY AND HERITAGE SOCIETY: $28k → 23%MADISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $59k → 12%NORC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $130k → 14%MT ZION MEMORIAL FUND FOR BLUES MUSIC AND JUSTICE: $53k → 18%ROEBLING MAIN GATE MUSEUM: $62k → 7%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $53k → 7%ABLEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORIAL SOCIETY: $75k → 8%VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE: $40k → 9%AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION MOUNT ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY: $75k → 6%BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN HISTORIANS: $50k → 6%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES: $54k → 8%PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE: $75k → 19%BLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $31k → 5%HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $51k → 9%RECKONING INC: $60k → 15%ASSOCIATION CULTURELLE ET HISTORIQUE DU MONT CARMEL: $50k → 15%DENNYS RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27k → 16%SING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $25k → 9%JOHN GARDNER INSTITUTE: $283k → 13%NORC AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $51k → 14%FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY: $41k → 7%VERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE: $36k → 9%BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE OF WOMEN HISTORIANS: $25k → 6%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES: $38k → 8%SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH: $37k → 22%AMERICAN MUSEUM OF LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER HISTORY AND CULTU: $75k → 17%COLLECTIONS AND STORIES OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS INC: $39k → 14%BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA IN KANSAS CITY: $49k → 15%JOHN GARDNER INSTITUTE: $176k → 13%CHARNLEY-PERSKY HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $57k → 14%JOHN GARDNER INSTITUTE: $174k → 13%REFUSING TO FORGET: $49k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY UIC DEPT OF HISTORY: $34k → 14%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

ME
VT
NH
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 53 repeat orgs$786k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +4% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
19

Total granted

$3.4M
$786k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
0%

Still filing today

68%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationSocial ScienceReligionOther
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

  • JN
    JOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $927k · revenue +213%
  • NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $181k · revenue +14%
  • NC
    NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES
    2× · 2023–2025 · $92k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue 0% · 45% of their budget
  • AC
    ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +33%
  • MH
    MORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -10% · 27% of their budget
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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Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
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2
Santa Monica Historical Society

Historical nbsp;preservation nbsp;and nbsp;education

Arts & Culture
3
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
4
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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5
Java Historical Society
Arts & Culture
6
Johnson Historical Museum of the Southwest
Arts & Culture
7
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
8
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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9
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
10
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

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11
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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12
Salem Historical Society
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
29/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $927,175 · EducationJOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLE…Fairleigh Dickinson University: $94,305 · EducationFairleigh Dickinson UniversitySOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP: $73,068 · EducationSOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE…BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC: $64,751 · EducationWALKER COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND ALUM: $51,225 · Education+6 more: $144,090 · Education+6 moreSING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $90,366 · Arts & CultureSING SING PRISON MUSEUMVERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE: $82,871 · Arts & CultureVERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRETHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $77,464 · Arts & CultureTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDO…ALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORI…THE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $74,910 · Arts & CultureTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HI…RECKONING INC: $73,932 · Arts & CultureRECKONING INCREFUSING TO FORGET: $70,797 · Arts & CultureREFUSING TO FORGETRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum: $62,040 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION CULTURELLE ET HISTORIQUE DU MONT-CARMEL: $58,425 · Arts & CultureTHE CHARNLEY-PERSKY HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $57,335 · Arts & CultureCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $57,076 · Arts & CultureLANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $56,276 · Arts & CultureCollections & Stories of American Muslims Inc: $51,570 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $51,389 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED: $48,265 · Arts & CultureBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $43,365 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $235,299 · Arts & Culture+8 moreAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSO…Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: $75,000 · OtherBerkshire Conference of Women His…PUTNAM HISTORY MUSEUM: $75,000 · OtherPUTNAM HISTORY MUSEUMMORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · OtherMORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETYTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER HISTORY & CULTURE: $75,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF LESBIAN GA…Madison County Historical Society: $74,806 · OtherMadison County Historical SocietyMT ZION MEMORIAL FUND FOR BLUES MUSIC AND JUSTICE: $62,774 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: $57,901 · OtherSOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES: $50,856 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $46,000 · Other+24 more: $567,884 · Other+24 moreNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $180,886 · Social ScienceNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES: $92,101 · Social ScienceTHE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC: $76,299 · ReligionBROWN UNIVERSITY: $23,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,354,614Arts & Culture$1,266,380Other$1,235,221Social Science$272,987Religion$76,299Community Improvement$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN N GARDNER INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: $927,175 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetNATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER: $180,886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $94,305 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES: $92,101 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSING SING PRISON MUSEUM: $90,366 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetVERMONT GRANITE MUSEUM OF BARRE: $82,871 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE WEB DU BOIS CENTER FOR FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY INC: $77,464 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION INC: $76,299 over 2y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $75,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetALBEMARLE CHARLOTTESVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBerkshire Conference of Women Historians: $75,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPUTNAM HISTORY MUSEUM: $75,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetMORAVIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE PEALE CENTER FOR BALTIMORE HISTORY AND ARCHITECTURE INC: $74,910 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMadison County Historical Society: $74,806 over 2y, 21% of budgetRECKONING INC: $73,932 over 3y, 24% of budgetSOUTH ASIAN AMERICAN DIGITAL ARCHIVE NFP: $73,068 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC: $64,751 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetRoebling Main Gate Museum dba Roebling Museum: $62,040 over 1y, 20% of budgetASSOCIATION CULTURELLE ET HISTORIQUE DU MONT-CARMEL: $58,425 over 2y, 73% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY: $57,901 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE CHARNLEY-PERSKY HOUSE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $57,335 over 1y, 38% of budgetCAYUGA MUSEUM OF HISTORY & ART INC: $57,076 over 2y, 12% of budgetLANE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $56,276 over 2y, 11% of budgetCollections & Stories of American Muslims Inc: $51,570 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF CHESHIRE COUNTY: $51,389 over 1y, 11% of budgetWALKER COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL AND ALUM: $51,225 over 2y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIAL HISTORY PRODUCTIONS INCORPORATED: $48,265 over 2y, 20% of budgetBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $43,365 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetOVER-THE-RHINE MUSEUM: $41,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSOUTH END HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $38,414 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL BIG HISTORY ASSOCIATION: $36,336 over 2y, 18% of budgetGASTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART & HISTO RY: $34,322 over 2y, 24% of budgetBAPTIST HISTORY & HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $33,715 over 2y, 30% of budgetThe History Center in Tompkins County Inc: $29,582 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HISTORY EDUCATION INC: $26,090 over 2y, 25% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHistory Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff: $22,721 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWindow Seat Media: $22,010 over 1y, 14% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY: $18,287 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetIsland County Historical Society: $16,600 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAmelia Island Museum of History Inc: $12,902 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

New York Council for …National Trust for Hi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
New York Council for the HumanitiesNY13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 American Historical Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Historical Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 73 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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