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History of Science Society Inc

The society's mission is to foster interest in the history of science, promote discussion of science's social and cultural relations, and bring this understanding to others worldwide.

$117k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$61k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$13,057
Largest grant, FY2025
$16,797
Organizations funded a year
3 to 5
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$4.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations History of Science Society Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’23’24
EducationArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving5$61k0%
FY20244$49k0%
FY20235$61k20%
FY20204$56k25%
FY20194$50k50%
FY20173$31kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$173kEducation$57kArts & Culture$56kEnvironment$23k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
OH
MO
WV
VA
MD
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Philosophy of Science Association$71,72956%
American Society for Environmental History$58,576611%
Society for the History of Technology$56,18358%
University of Chicago$37,90220%
Society for Literature Science and The Arts$36,22959%
American Association for the History of Medicine Inc$29,10537%
International Society for the History Philosophy and Social$19,5201n/a

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About History of Science Society Inc

How much does History of Science Society Inc give?
History of Science Society Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $60,690, out of $116,928 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does History of Science Society Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (56%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (18%).
Who are History of Science Society Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Philosophy of Science Association ($72k), American Society for Environmental History ($59k), Society for the History of Technology ($56k).
Does History of Science Society Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is History of Science Society Inc based?
History of Science Society Inc is based in PA.

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 7 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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