How much does National Humanities Center give?

National Humanities Center reported 11 itemized grants totaling $676,011, out of $1,770,494 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does National Humanities Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).

Who are National Humanities Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($1.0M), Duke University ($939k), University of Texas ($282k).

Does National Humanities Center fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Humanities Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, American Chemical Society, Tulsa Community Foundation.

Where is National Humanities Center based?

National Humanities Center is based in NC.

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National Humanities Center

The NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER is the world's only independent institute dedicated exclusively to advanced study in all areas of the humanities. Through its residential fellowship program, the center provides scholars with the resources necessary to generate new knowledge and to further understand all forms of cultural expression, social…

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 58%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $676k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $57,500
Largest grant, FY2025: $103,500
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 9
Total assets, FY2025: $97M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations National Humanities Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationRecreation & SportsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$636k	60%
FY2024	24	$1.1M	58%
FY2023	17	$1.0M	65%
FY2022	22	$1.3M	64%
FY2021	15	$1.1M	53%
FY2020	16	$959k	63%
FY2019	13	$668k	69%
FY2018	11	$563k	73%

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What it funded, over time

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

Education$8.4MRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

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

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$1,003,918	9	n/a
Duke University	$938,600	9	0%
University of Texas	$282,435	5	n/a
Spelman College	$248,500	3	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$222,000	2	n/a
The Howard University	$190,000	2	0%
Nc State University	$190,000	3	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$144,500	3	n/a
William & Mary	$143,667	2	n/a
North Carolina Central University	$135,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of National Humanities Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$1,003,918	9	n/a
Duke University	$938,600	9	0%
University of Texas	$282,435	5	n/a
Spelman College	$248,500	3	0%
Pennsylvania State University	$222,000	2	n/a
The Howard University	$190,000	2	0%
Nc State University	$190,000	3	n/a
Regents of the University of Colorado	$144,500	3	n/a
William & Mary	$143,667	2	n/a
North Carolina Central University	$135,000	2	n/a
Bowdoin College	$130,500	2	0%
State University of New York College at Purchase	$121,381	2	n/a
Regents Univ of California	$120,000	1	n/a
University of Florida	$118,000	2	n/a
Curators of the University of Missouri	$115,000	2	n/a
Arizona State University	$112,000	3	n/a
University of Utah	$112,000	2	n/a
Northwestern University	$111,000	2	0%
Texas A&M University	$109,000	3	n/a
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund	$104,000	2	0%
University of Pittsburgh	$94,000	2	0%
University of Miami	$80,436	2	0%
Xavier University of Louisiana	$80,000	1	0%
Colgate University	$80,000	1	0%
Cornell University	$80,000	1	0%
Prairie View A&M University	$80,000	1	n/a
Board of Trustees of Illinois State University	$76,000	2	n/a
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro	$74,500	2	n/a
The Ohio State University	$72,500	1	n/a
Hampton University	$70,500	1	0%
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois	$68,500	2	n/a
Regents of the University of Michigan	$68,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine	$65,000	1	n/a
Montclair State University Foundation Inc	$61,500	1	0%
Vanderbilt University	$60,500	1	0%
University of California Davis	$60,500	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California	$60,000	2	n/a
University of Chicago	$60,000	1	0%
St Mary's College of Maryland	$59,511	1	n/a
Florida State University	$59,000	1	n/a
University of California Santa Barbara	$58,500	1	n/a
Board of Regents Nevada System of Higher Education	$57,500	1	n/a
Oregon State University Foundation	$56,500	1	0%
George Mason University Foundation Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Florida State University Research Foundation Inc	$54,000	1	0%
West Virginia University Foundation Inc	$52,500	1	0%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$51,000	1	n/a
University of Connecticut	$50,000	1	n/a
University of Oklahoma	$50,000	1	n/a
University of Mississippi	$49,000	1	n/a
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross	$48,750	1	0%
University of Wisconsin	$48,000	1	n/a
Macalester College	$47,500	1	0%
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation	$47,000	1	0%
Swarthmore College	$46,500	1	0%
University of Maryland College Park	$46,000	1	n/a
University of Georgia	$43,000	1	n/a
Bucknell University	$42,000	1	0%
Barnard College	$42,000	1	0%
The University of Texas at Dallas Center for Brainhealth	$41,500	1	n/a
Trustees of Tufts College	$40,000	1	0%
Southeast Missouri University Foundation	$40,000	1	0%
Indiana University Foundation	$40,000	1	0%
University of Houston	$40,000	1	n/a
Claremont Graduate University	$40,000	1	0%
St Louis University	$40,000	1	0%
Vcuvcu Health Campus	$40,000	1	n/a
USC School of Medicine Greenville	$40,000	1	n/a
Ohio University	$36,000	1	n/a
Wesleyan University	$36,000	1	0%
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte	$35,000	1	n/a
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley	$35,000	1	n/a
Kansas Athletics Inc	$35,000	1	n/a
The University of Tennessee	$35,000	1	n/a
Kenyon College	$35,000	1	0%
Oregon Health & Science University	$34,000	1	n/a
Northern Illinois University	$32,640	1	n/a
The Trustees of Grinnell College	$31,250	1	0%
Western Michigan University	$30,000	1	n/a
Davidson College	$30,000	1	0%
Southern Methodist University	$28,750	1	0%
University of California Irvine Foundation	$27,000	1	0%
Trustees of Boston College	$25,000	1	0%
Montana State University	$25,000	1	n/a
Delaware State University	$25,000	1	0%
North Carolina a & T State University	$25,000	1	n/a
Rutgers the State University	$25,000	1	n/a
Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University	$24,292	1	0%
Claremont McKenna College	$24,000	1	0%
The University of Georgia Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Case Western Reserve University	$20,000	1	0%
William Marsh Rice University	$20,000	1	0%
Johnson C Smith University	$20,000	1	0%
San Diego State University	$10,000	1	n/a

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget National Humanities Center supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 44.

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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 Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · American Chemical Society · Tulsa Community Foundation · Howard Hughes Medical Institute · American Council of Learned Societies · Folds of Honor Foundation · Executive Leadership Council · Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Kpmg US Foundation Inc · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Us- Japan Council

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.

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About National Humanities Center

How much does National Humanities Center give?: National Humanities Center reported 11 itemized grants totaling $676,011, out of $1,770,494 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does National Humanities Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Recreation & Sports (1%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are National Humanities Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($1.0M), Duke University ($939k), University of Texas ($282k).
Does National Humanities Center fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Humanities Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Collegiate Athletic Association, American Chemical Society, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is National Humanities Center based?: National Humanities Center is based in NC.