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Internet Archive

Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies, images, software and web pages.

$684k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$135k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$17MArts & Culture$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.1MEnvironment$375kReligion$36kScience & Tech$20kCrime & Legal$19kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $135,014, the rows itemized in this filing. The $684,386 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $549,372 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$135,014
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Gatherings for Good$135,014
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Buddhist Digital Resource Ctr: $36k → 8%Mooch Co Inc: $10k → 8%Community Initiatives: $50k → 10%Open Library of Richmond: $16.8M → 10%Frick Collection: $12k → 17%Inst of Museum & Library Svcs: $157k → 14%The Benjamin Franklin Society: $8k → 13%OCLC Inc: $22k → 15%Densho: $19k → 9%Center for Open Science: $20k → 8%Earth Species Project: $275k → 10%Better World Library: $1.3M → 10%DDSchull Associates: $10k → 17%Inst of Museum & Library Svcs: $100k → 14%Earth Species Project: $100k → 10%Gatherings for Good: $540k → 10%Gatherings for Good: $454k → 10%Gatherings for Good: $135k → 10%Gatherings for Good: $79k → 10%The Long Now Foundation: $30k → 10%The Long Now Foundation: $18k → 10%The Long Now Foundation: $12k → 10%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

WA
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
DC
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $530k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$530k · 100% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Support

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 4 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5841% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$1.9M
$18M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5841%
+63%

Still filing today

50%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechPhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • GF
    Gatherings for Good
    4× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M
  • TE
    THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT
    2× · 2019–2020 · $375k · revenue ×59 · 45% of their budget
  • IO
    Inst of Museum & Library Svcs
    2× · 2017–2018 · $257k

Funded once

  • OL
    Open Library of Richmond Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $17M · revenue -48% · 65% of their budget
  • BW
    Better World Librariesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue +143% · 38% of their budget
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +158%
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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Internet Archive

Internet Archive was founded in 1996 to build an Internet library with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, movies,…

Human Services
2
Public Library of Science

Please see schedule o for complete description of the organization's mission.

Science & Tech
3
The Friends of the Bancroft Library

The Friends of the Bancroft Library's primary mission is to raise funds and donations, and to purchase books, manuscripts, for the benefit of the bancroft library at the University of California, Berkeley.

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4
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
5
Creative Commons Corporation

Develops legal and technical infrastructure for digital creativity, sharing, and innovation.

Education
6
Natural History Institute

Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…

Arts & Culture
7
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Inc

International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.

International
8
Council On Library and Information Resources

Clir is an independent, nonprofit organization that forges strategies to enhance research, teaching, and learning environments in collaboration with libraries, cultural institutions, and communities of higher learning.

Environment
9
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
10
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
11
Oikonos - Ecosystem Knowledge

Oikonos studies and protects imperiled ecosystems by engaging diverse communities through innovative scientific and artistic collaborations.

Science & Tech
12
Commoncrawl Foundation
Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Open Science Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oclc Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Open Library of Richmond Inc: $16,750,000 · EducationOpen Library of Richmond Inc+3 more: $89,371 · EducationGatherings for Good: $1,207,317 · OtherGatherings…THE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $375,000 · OtherTHE EARTH …Inst of Museum & Library Svcs: $256,628 · OtherInst of Mu…+3 more: $31,961 · OtherBetter World Libraries: $1,250,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $18,519 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $49,816 · PhilanthropyBUDDHIST DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $35,884 · ReligionCENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE INC: $19,580 · Science & Tech
Education$16,839,371Other$1,870,906Arts & Culture$1,268,519Philanthropy$49,816Religion$35,884Science & Tech$19,580

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Library of Richmond Inc: $16,750,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetBetter World Libraries: $1,250,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE EARTH SPECIES PROJECT: $375,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $59,842 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $49,816 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUDDHIST DIGITAL RESOURCE CENTER INC: $35,884 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR OPEN SCIENCE INC: $19,580 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDENSHO: $18,519 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $11,961 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN SOCIETY LIBRARY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 4.6% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Internet Archive funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Internet Archive. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Internet Archive?

    Find your warmest path to Internet Archive 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 15 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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