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Federation of State Humanities Councils

The federation advocates for increased investment in and engagement with the national network of humanities councils.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
71
Grants FY2025still arriving
55
States reached
$250k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.9MArts & Culture$2.1MPhilanthropy$35k
02FY2025 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 71 grants below total $12,631,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,870,254 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,239,004 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $7.3M
  • $250k+20 grants · $5.0M
$200,000
Median grant
55
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UTAH HUMANITIES$250,000
INDIANA HUMANITIES$250,000
VIRGINIA HUMANITIES$250,000
HUMANITIES WASHINGTON$250,000
VERMONT HUMANITIES$250,000
WYOMING HUMANITIES$250,000
FLORIDA HUMANITIES$250,000
HUMANITIES KANSAS$250,000
HUMANITIES NORTH DAKOTA$250,000
ARIZONA HUMANITIES$250,000
ALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE$250,000
ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM$250,000
MASS HUMANITIES$250,000
HUMANITIES NEBRASKA$250,000
CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES$250,000
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ARIZONA HUMANITIES: $250k → 11%DELAWARE HUMANITIES: $200k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS HUMANITIES: $50k → 12%MASS HUMANITIES: $250k → 17%HUMANITIES NEBRASKA: $250k → 13%IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $230k → 8%MINNESOTA HUMANITIES CENTER: $220k → 14%HUMANITIES MONTANA: $200k → 9%PA HUMANITIES: $230k → 22%HAWAI'I COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $200k → 9%HUMANITIES NEW YORK: $200k → 17%HUMANITIES TEXAS: $200k → 10%NEW MEXICO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $210k → 14%OKLAHOMA HUMANITIES: $240k → 16%SOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES: $220k → 16%HUMANITIESAR: $200k → 17%HUMANITIES DC: $210k → 14%FLORIDA HUMANITIES: $250k → 12%HUMANITIES IOWA: $210k → 17%MICHIGAN HUMANITIES: $221k → 16%HUMANITIES KANSAS: $250k → 14%MISSOURI HUMANITIES: $200k → 21%WISCONSIN HUMANITIES: $250k → 10%OREGON HUMANITIES: $200k → 12%CT HUMANITIES: $200k → 7%HUMANITIES TENNESSEE: $250k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES: $200k → 11%RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $240k → 14%UTAH HUMANITIES: $250k → 8%GEORGIA HUMANITIES: $200k → 13%COLORADO HUMANITIES: $200k → 8%INDIANA HUMANITIES: $250k → 16%OHIO HUMANITIES: $230k → 15%HUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $250k → 9%WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $200k → 18%ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM: $250k → 10%MISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES: $250k → 23%VIRGINIA HUMANITIES: $250k → 8%SOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $200k → 13%VERMONT HUMANITIES: $250k → 9%LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $250k → 23%MARYLAND HUMANITIES: $200k → 19%NEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES: $200k → 7%KENTUCKY HUMANITIES: $250k → 15%MAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $200k → 7%CALIFORNIA HUMANITIES: $250k → 10%ILLINOIS HUMANITIES: $200k → 14%WYOMING HUMANITIES: $250k → 17%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

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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17M · 54 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

54 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$17M
$50k

Still filing today

96%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’22’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • LE
    LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
    4× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +157%
  • RI
    RHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES
    4× · 2017–2025 · $381k · revenue +7% · 26% of their budget
  • VH
    VERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2025 · $377k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • AS
    AMERIKA SAMOA HUMANITIES COUNCIL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

1
Chicago Humanities Festival

To promote public appreciation, understanding and support of the humanities through festivals and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
2
National Humanities Center

The national humanities center is the world's only independent institute dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. through its residential fellowship program, the center provides scholars with the resources…

Arts & Culture
3
Federation of State Humanities Councils

The federation advocates for increased investment in and engagement with the national network of humanities councils. we support, connect, and amplify the work and voices of our members, demonstrating councils' value for communities and…

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4
The American Humanist Association

We strive to bring about a progressive society where being good without a god is an accepted and respected way to live life. we are accomplishing this through our defense of civil liberties and secular governance, by our outreach to the…

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5
The National Humanities Alliance

To advance the cause of the humanities through, but not limited to, conducting and supporting research, and disseminating information about the contribution of the humanities and of humanities scholars to society, and about the state of…

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6
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
7
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
8
National Humanities Alliance Foundation

To advance the cause of the humanities through, but not limited to, conducting and supporting research, and disseminating information about the contribution of the humanities and of humanities scholars to society, and about the state of…

Arts & Culture
9
Holocaust Center for Humanity

The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.

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10
Howard County Historical Society

To collect, preserve and share the diverse history of all the peoples of howard county

Arts & Culture
11
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
12
Nebraska Foundation for the Humanities

To work to secure private funding and advocate for the public funding at the state and federal levels to support the programs of the nebraska humanities council.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Humanities Council Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pennsylvania Humanities Council. 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

55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 58 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
45/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $391,315 · Arts & CultureMISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $380,250 · Arts & CulturePennsylvania Humanities Council: $375,394 · Arts & CultureARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $372,942 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $370,486 · Arts & CultureWyoming Humanities Council: $370,486 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA HUMANITIES: $370,486 · Arts & CultureMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC: $367,050 · Arts & CultureIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $361,250 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $7,402,117 · Arts & Culture+24 moreRHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $381,043 · OtherRHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIESVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $376,686 · OtherVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCILKentucky Humanities Council Inc: $367,793 · OtherKentucky Humanities Council IncINDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $344,275 · OtherINDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INCALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE: $339,082 · OtherNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $334,793 · OtherNORTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $334,793 · OtherNEVADA HUMANITIES INC: $320,486 · OtherOHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $317,118 · OtherHumanities Montana: $309,293 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $306,736 · OtherMinnesota Humanities Center: $300,000 · OtherDELAWARE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $293,750 · OtherNORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $291,043 · OtherNEW MEXICO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $280,486 · OtherHAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES: $280,000 · OtherOREGON COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $248,178 · OtherNorthern Marianas Humanities Council: $234,793 · OtherTHE WEST VIRGINIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $233,000 · OtherArkansas Humanities Council: $229,850 · Other+3 more: $290,894 · OtherHUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC: $280,486 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC: $221,250 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$10,761,776Other$6,414,092Philanthropy$501,736

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES: $391,315 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $381,043 over 4y, 26% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $380,250 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetVERMONT HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $376,686 over 5y, 14% of budgetPennsylvania Humanities Council: $375,394 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetARIZONA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $372,942 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $370,486 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetWyoming Humanities Council: $370,486 over 4y, 20% of budgetCALIFORNIA HUMANITIES: $370,486 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetKentucky Humanities Council Inc: $367,793 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC: $367,050 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetIDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $361,250 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetHUMANITIES KANSAS INC: $356,143 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM: $355,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetILLINOIS HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $348,666 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetOklahoma Humanities Council Inc: $347,486 over 4y, 23% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $346,043 over 4y, 17% of budgetINDIANA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $344,275 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetALABAMA HUMANITIES ALLIANCE: $339,082 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $335,486 over 4y, 18% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $334,793 over 4y, 10% of budgetNORTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $334,793 over 3y, 23% of budgetMISSOURI HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $333,943 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetFLORIDA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $324,543 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetNew Jersey Council For The Humanities: $322,125 over 5y, 16% of budgetNEVADA HUMANITIES INC: $320,486 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetGEORGIA HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $319,793 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC: $318,793 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetOHIO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $317,118 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNEW YORK COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $316,793 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHUMANITIES TENNESSEE: $309,793 over 3y, 11% of budgetHumanities Montana: $309,293 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $306,736 over 4y, 13% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $306,043 over 3y, 21% of budgetSOUTH DAKOTA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $300,693 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMinnesota Humanities Center: $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHUMANITIES IOWA: $295,043 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetDELAWARE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $293,750 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetMAINE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $291,736 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetUTAH HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $291,693 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $291,043 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetMaryland Humanities Council Inc: $285,693 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHUMANITIES COUNCIL OF WASHINGTON DC: $280,486 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetNEW MEXICO HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $280,486 over 3y, 15% of budgetHAWAII COUNCIL FOR HUMANITIES: $280,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHUMANITIES TEXAS: $269,793 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY: $250,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetOREGON COUNCIL FOR THE HUMANITIES: $248,178 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

The Academy of Americ…The Andrew W Mellon F…Network for GoodJpmorgan Chase Founda…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile FoundationAmerican Online Givin…
The Academy of American Poets IncNY17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Academy of American Poets Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Federation of State Humanities Councils funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Federation of State Humanities Councils. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 91%
  • Florida Humanities Council Inc: 100% of income from government
  • New Jersey Council for the Humanities: 100% of income from government
  • Delaware Humanities Council: 100% of income from government
  • Connecticut Humanities Council Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Oklahoma Humanities Council Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Vermont Humanities Council: 67% of income from government
  • Maryland Humanities Council Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Oregon Council for the Humanities: 55% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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 58 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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