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Field Museum of Natural History

The field museum is an educational institution concerned with the relationships in nature and among cultures. It provides collection-based research and learning for greater public understanding and appreciation of the world (continued on schedule o) in which we live. Its collections, public learning programs, and research are inseparably…

$497k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$161k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$42,637
Largest grant, FY2024
$72,387
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$933M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Field Museum of Natural History funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving4$161k25%
FY20235$165k60%
FY20225$145k20%
FY20217$172k57%
FY20206$191k33%
FY20195$120k100%
FY20181$6k0%
FY20171$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$533kScience & Tech$312kArts & Culture$80kHealth$79kAnimals$43k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
MI
MA
CA
VA
AZ
NC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Chicago$494,71260%
University of Wisconsin Madison$113,8163n/a
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$73,64620%
FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation$43,2343n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$42,6371n/a
Michigan State University$39,2864n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$38,1232n/a
Tca Health Inc$35,88020%
Florida Atlantic University$22,9832n/a
University of Alaska$16,3411n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Field Museum of Natural History by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Chicago$494,71260%
University of Wisconsin Madison$113,8163n/a
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$73,64620%
FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation$43,2343n/a
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$42,6371n/a
Michigan State University$39,2864n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro$38,1232n/a
Tca Health Inc$35,88020%
Florida Atlantic University$22,9832n/a
University of Alaska$16,3411n/a
Northern Arizona University$14,9802n/a
Contratiempo Nfp$14,1501n/a
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University$11,8671n/a
Houston Museum of Natural Science$8,35310%
Chicago Commons Association$8,05010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$7,01710%
Chinatown Museum Foundation Chinese American Museum of Chicago$6,67012%

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About Field Museum of Natural History

How much does Field Museum of Natural History give?
Field Museum of Natural History reported 4 itemized grants totaling $161,019, out of $496,866 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Field Museum of Natural History fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Science & Tech (30%), Arts & Culture (8%).
Who are Field Museum of Natural History's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Chicago ($495k), University of Wisconsin Madison ($114k), Milwaukee Public Museum Inc ($74k).
Does Field Museum of Natural History fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Field Museum of Natural History based?
Field Museum of Natural History is based in IL.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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