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Historic Preservation Education Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$52k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$125kEnvironment$20kScience & Tech$18kEmployment$14kHousing & Shelter$10kEducation$5k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Preservation Maryland$12,000
LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK$10,000
GUAM PRESERVATION TRUST$6,000
PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE$5,000
REVOLUTION WORKSHOP$5,000
GREENWOOD HISTORIC FUND$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
PENASCO VALLEY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY$2,500
LATINOS IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION$2,000
BALL STATE UNIVERSITY$1,975
02The need
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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 (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 62% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%RETHOS: $6k → 14%PRRESERVE MONTANA: $8k → 9%HISTORIC HAWAII: $5k → 9%LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK: $10k → 14%HISTORIC ALBANY: $5k → 14%HISTORIC ITHACA: $6k → 16%GREENWOOD HISTORIC FUND: $4k → 20%LATINOS IN HERITAGE CONSERVATION: $2k → 12%TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%PENASCO VALLEY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $3k → 18%ASSOC FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 14%MICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORK: $7k → 21%HART SQUARE FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%Bristol Historical Preservation: $9k → 7%NEWPORT RESTORATION FDN: $15k → 7%PROV PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $5k → 14%BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%COLUMBUS LANDMARKS: $5k → 15%ASSOCIATION FOR PRESERVATION TECH: $4k → 11%REVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $5k → 14%Preservation Maryland: $12k → 19%RETHOS: $4k → 14%HISTORIC HAWAII: $4k → 9%PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $5k → 14%BALL STATE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 19%COLUMBUS LANDMARKS FDN: $2k → 15%APTI: $8k → 11%PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA: $4k → 14%HISTORIC HAWAII FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%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

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
IN
OH
RI
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
HI
TX
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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28k · 3 repeat orgs$164k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
18

Total granted

$28k
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
0%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEmploymentOther
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

  • RF
    RETHOS F/K/A PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
    3× · 2021–2024 · $14k · revenue +41%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2024–2025 · $9k
  • BS
    BALL STATE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k

Funded once

  • NR
    NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • AF
    ASSOC FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • TA
    TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

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The Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc

Preservation of buildings and sites of historical or architectural importance.

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Historical Preservation Inc
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Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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National Council for Preservation Education
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Historic Preservation Education Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Historic House Trust of New York City Inc

The historic house trust of new york city (hht), in partnership with the new york city department of parks & recreation (nyc parks), advocates for, promotes, and provides expertise to preserve 23 publicly owned historic sites in new york…

Arts & Culture
7
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia

The carpenters' company preserves and interprets carpenters' hall and our collections as unique historical assets that are tied to our nation's founding and the master builder tradition, and we convene the public to explore and inspire new…

Arts & Culture
8
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States

The national trust for historic preservation in the united states protects significant places representing our diverse cultural experiences by taking direct action and inspiring broad public support.

Arts & Culture
9
Maine Preservation

Maine preservation promotes and preserves historic places, buildings, downtowns and neighborhoods, stenghtening the cultural and economic vitality of maine communities.

Arts & Culture
10
Huntington Historical Society

Preserving the ongoing heritage of the Town of Huntington

Arts & Culture
11
New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated

Primary purpose is to save and preserve buildings in New Haven, Connecticut through ongoing involvement with the city, Yale University and its neighborhoods, including educational activities such as walking tours of downtown New Haven and…

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12
New Hampshire Preservation Alliance

Preservation of historic landmarks, communities and landscapes in order to protect and revitalize the character of the Statess communities and add to their economic vitality.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newport Restoration Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Revolution Workshop. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
7/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $14,900 · OtherNEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATIONRETHOS F/K/A PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA: $14,000 · OtherRETHOS F/K/A PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTAASSOC FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · OtherASSOC FOR PRESERVATION TECHNOLOGYTEXAS AM UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherTEXAS AM UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PRESERVATION INSTITUTE: $9,000 · OtherNATIONAL PRESERVATION INSTITUTEIndividual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $8,912 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAPTI: $8,000 · OtherAPTIIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORK: $7,364 · OtherMICHIGAN HISTORIC PRESERVATION NETWORKHistoric Ithaca Inc: $6,300 · OtherGUAM PRESERVATION TRUST: $6,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherPROV PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $5,000 · OtherBALL STATE UNIVERSITY: $4,975 · Other+2 more: $6,250 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MARYLAND ANTIQUITIES INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATI…THE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WE…PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW…THE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FUND INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREEN-WOOD HISTORIC FU…HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $3,490 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATIO…Power of Preservation Foundation: $3,464 · Arts & CulturePower of Preservation Foun…PENASCO VALLEY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $2,500 · Arts & CulturePENASCO VALLEY HISTORICAL …Latinos In Heritage Conservation: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBUS LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureREVOLUTION WORKSHOP: $5,000 · EmploymentHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$137,551Arts & Culture$44,454Employment$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEWPORT RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $14,900 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRETHOS F/K/A PRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA: $14,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LANDMARK SOCIETY OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL PRESERVATION INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHistoric Ithaca Inc: $6,300 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHART SQUARE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION: $3,490 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPower of Preservation Foundation: $3,464 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetPENASCO VALLEY HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAPT International Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS LANDMARKS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

National Trust for Hi…1772 Foundation IncDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United StatesDC19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States · 1772 Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Historic Preservation Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Historic Preservation Education Foundation. 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 50%
  • Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities Inc: 50% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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How do I get to Historic Preservation Education Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Historic Preservation Education Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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-PF 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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