· Public charity
Guam Humanities Council
To foster community engagement and dialogue, inspire critical thinking, celebrate diversity and enrich the quality of island residents through the power of the humanities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Career Tech High Academy Charter School | $10,000 |
| Dept of Public Health & Social Services | $10,000 |
| Guam Human Rights Intitiative | $5,000 |
Where the grant dollars land
Across the US and around the world.
US giving: 43% of grant dollars ($155k). The 57% that went abroad ($203k) is mapped below.
Beyond the US: 57% of all-years giving ($203k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +388% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GIGuam International Film Festival Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $35k
- IHI HAGAN FAMALAO'AN2× · 2021–2022 · $32k
- MCMicronesia Climate Change Alliance Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $28k · revenue +388%
Funded once
- BWBREAKING WAVE THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2022 · $23k
- STSANTA TERESITA CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $18k
- GPGUAM PRESERVATION TRUSTone grant, 2021 · $17k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 21 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Guam Humanities Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guam Humanities Council. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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