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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$104k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$8.4MRecreation & Sports$60kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $676,011, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,770,494 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,094,483 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $596k
$57,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$97M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$103,500
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$80,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL$75,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$60,500
ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND$59,511
UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO$57,500
NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY$55,000
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY$54,000
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON$51,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ$40,000
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 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $117k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE: $65k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES: $120k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA: $59k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $61k → 16%STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY: $80k → 7%COLGATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 11%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $80k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $70k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN: $113k → 10%PRAIRIE VIEW A & M UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY: $59k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $68k → 14%OREGON STATE: $57k → 18%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $83k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $186k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $176k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $80k → 8%SPELMAN COLLEGE: $160k → 13%THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $73k → 15%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $60k → 14%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $62k → 16%COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY: $94k → 7%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $71k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA RENO: $58k → 10%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $56k → 23%ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND: $60k → 8%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $66k → 7%PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $105k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $80k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY: $55k → 8%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $146k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $148k → 13%THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $60k → 14%XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $80k → 23%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $65k → 7%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $122k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CHAPEL HILL: $142k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $114k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $127k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $112k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $91k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $104k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $75k → 13%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $57k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $60k → 13%NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: $80k → 11%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

ME
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL

Grants abroad, by region: $238k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $57k to organizations and $181k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Central America and the Caribbean$134k · 56% · 3 people

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$104k · 44% · 1 grant · 2 people

Stated purpose: FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 26 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
62

Total granted

$5.0M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

35%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $939k · revenue +51%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $190k · revenue +40%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2019–2023 · $131k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2024 · $120k
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
    one grant, 2022 · $80k · revenue -2%
  • CU
    COLGATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue +21%
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.

1
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is William Marsh Rice University. 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

49 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. 49 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $1,003,918 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $282,435 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $222,000 · OtherNC STATE UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · Other+47 more: $2,970,199 · Other+47 moreDUKE UNIVERSITY: $938,600 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYSpelman College: $248,500 · EducationSpelman CollegeTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $190,000 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $131,500 · EducationBowdoin College: $130,500 · Education+42 more: $2,012,978 · Education+42 moreNorthwestern University: $111,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,668,552Education$3,652,078Recreation & Sports$111,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $938,600 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $248,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $190,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $131,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $130,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $111,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $104,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $94,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $80,436 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $70,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $70,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $61,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVanderbilt University: $60,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon State University Foundation: $56,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $54,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $52,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $48,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $48,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACALESTER COLLEGE: $47,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $47,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $46,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $42,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYale University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $31,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $28,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $27,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $24,292 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗

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 A…American Chemical Soc…Tulsa Community Found…Howard Hughes Medical…American Council of L…Folds of Honor Founda…Executive Leadership …Hispanic Scholarship …Kpmg US Foundation IncPresident and Fellows…The Trustees of Colum…Us- Japan Council
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Humanities Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Humanities Center. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Delaware State University: 16% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Yale University: 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 99 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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