How much does American Museum of Natural History give?

American Museum of Natural History reported 22 itemized grants totaling $2,428,268, out of $6,145,408 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does American Museum of Natural History fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (49%), Animals (22%), Education (12%).

Who are American Museum of Natural History's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.1M), New York University ($2.8M), University of Utah ($2.3M).

Does American Museum of Natural History fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as American Museum of Natural History?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.

Where is American Museum of Natural History based?

American Museum of Natural History is based in NY.

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New York · Public charity

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."

$6.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 22
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 5%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $2.4M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $73,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $440,673
Organizations funded a year: 18 to 21; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 12
Total assets, FY2025: $1.7B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations American Museum of Natural History funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationScience & TechArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$2.3M	14%
FY2024	20	$2.0M	5%
FY2023	19	$1.8M	5%
FY2022	19	$1.5M	16%
FY2021	18	$1.1M	6%
FY2020	18	$1.4M	6%
FY2019	19	$1.8M	0%
FY2018	21	$2.2M	19%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$8.2MAnimals$3.6MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$949kEnvironment$694kRecreation & Sports$100kCommunity Improvement$82k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wildlife Conservation Society	$3,107,736	9	0%
New York University	$2,766,559	9	0%
University of Utah	$2,268,274	9	n/a
New York Hall of Science	$1,042,164	9	1%
Sri International	$744,248	7	0%
University of Maine System Inc	$652,852	5	n/a
University of Connecticut	$612,862	6	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$542,973	2	n/a
Staten Island Zoological Society Inc	$516,577	9	2%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$398,889	3	n/a

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All grantees of American Museum of Natural History by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Wildlife Conservation Society	$3,107,736	9	0%
New York University	$2,766,559	9	0%
University of Utah	$2,268,274	9	n/a
New York Hall of Science	$1,042,164	9	1%
Sri International	$744,248	7	0%
University of Maine System Inc	$652,852	5	n/a
University of Connecticut	$612,862	6	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$542,973	2	n/a
Staten Island Zoological Society Inc	$516,577	9	2%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego	$398,889	3	n/a
Research Foundation of the City University of New York	$367,857	6	0%
Houston Museum of Natural Science	$302,479	9	0%
Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	$298,744	9	51%
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Corporation	$282,749	9	0%
California Academy of Sciences	$279,253	8	0%
New York Botanical Garden	$276,325	8	0%
The Adler Planetarium	$264,492	9	0%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education	$243,666	4	0%
Cornell University	$167,113	4	0%
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat	$166,548	5	0%
Trustees of Princeton University - Alumni Organizations and Classes	$143,893	1	5%
Queens Botanical Garden Society Inc	$135,215	7	0%
Colorado Museum of Natural History	$131,138	7	0%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$119,306	3	0%
Friends of Roosevelt Park Inc	$99,965	1	n/a
Wested	$82,151	3	n/a
Suffolk University	$64,774	1	0%
Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc	$45,555	3	0%
Regents of the University of California	$40,402	2	n/a
Bruce Museum Inc	$33,474	4	0%
Biodiversity Outreach Network Explormor	$17,083	1	9%

American Museum of Natural History supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

The New York Community TrustNY13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About American Museum of Natural History

How much does American Museum of Natural History give?: American Museum of Natural History reported 22 itemized grants totaling $2,428,268, out of $6,145,408 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does American Museum of Natural History fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (49%), Animals (22%), Education (12%).
Who are American Museum of Natural History's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wildlife Conservation Society ($3.1M), New York University ($2.8M), University of Utah ($2.3M).
Does American Museum of Natural History fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as American Museum of Natural History?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is American Museum of Natural History based?: American Museum of Natural History is based in NY.