· Public charity
Field Museum of Natural History
The field museum is an educational institution concerned with the relationships in nature and among cultures.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $89k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $72,387 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | $42,637 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM | $33,274 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY | $12,721 |
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 (FY21–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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: $147k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $77k to organizations and $71k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
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How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
University of Chicago6× · 2019–2024 · $495k · revenue +25%
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $74k · revenue +0%- THTCA HEALTH INC2× · 2020–2022 · $36k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2023 · $16k
- CNCONTRATIEMPO NFPone grant, 2021 · $14k
- VPVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $12k
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 Chicago History Museum strives to be a destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement. Through dynamic exhibitions, tours, programs, digital resources, and special events, the Museum connects people to Chicago's history…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The driehaus museum engages and inspires the global community through exploration and ongoing conversations in art, architecture, and design of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. its permanent collection and temporary…
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."
Achieving international impact through world-class research and education in fundamental computer science and information technology.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
We are chicago's jesuit, catholic university - a diverse community seeking god in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice, and faith.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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
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.
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How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Field Museum of Natural History funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Field Museum of Natural History. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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