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Council on Library and Information Resources
Clir is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of COUNCIL ON LIBRARY AND INFORMATION RESOURCES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 39 grants below total $3,507,117 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,649,219 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,142,102 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k25 grants · $746k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERISTY | $300,000 |
| LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $300,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $299,843 |
| OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $298,934 |
| AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM | $273,121 |
| COLUMBUS METROPOLITIAN LIBRARY | $241,406 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIV OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN | $235,197 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON | $190,517 |
| RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT | $180,000 |
| HISTORIC HUDSON VALLEY | $137,735 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY | $123,403 |
| TEXAS ARCHIVE OF THE MOVING IMAGE | $68,641 |
| WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $62,000 |
| THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CA SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $49,995 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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
Grants abroad, by region — $1.5M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $1.3M to organizations and $231k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES INSTITUTE · DIGITIZING RIKKI SWIN INSTITUTE COLLECTION · EDUCATION MEDIA PLAYER
Stated purpose: TECHNICAL COORDINATOR/IIIF/IIPC
Stated purpose: HIDDEN COLLECTIONS AFRICA PROJECT
Stated purpose: ALGERIA PROJECT
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- NHNORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM2× · 2017–2021 · $537k · revenue +16% · 42% of their budget
- AFAMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM2× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +80%
- GSGEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $373k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- ICIlisagvik Collegeone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +14%
- FLFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -54%
- TNTHE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SCone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -62%
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.
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 Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Walker Art Center and the most unlike its peers is The Hammond Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 55 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 279 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTHEAST HISTORIC FILM ↗
- Who funds Ilisagvik College ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING SC ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Growth Art Center ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Mid Atlantic Arts Inc · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Rasmuson Foundation · National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · Greater Hudson Heritage Network · Horizons Foundation · California Humanities · The Pew Charitable Trusts · The William Penn 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 Council on Library and Information Resources 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Oregon Historical Society — 10% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Ocean Exploration Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.