· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k25 grants · $746k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $300,000 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERISTY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
115 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. 115 of the 279 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIANSBURG INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Council on Library and Information Resources funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Council on Library and Information Resources. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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