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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.

$22M
Granted FY2025still arriving
209
Grants FY2025still arriving
44
States reached
$1.7M
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.

Arts & Culture$78MReligion$3.4MCommunity Improvement$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.6MEducation$1.0MEnvironment$602kRecreation & Sports$584kHousing & Shelter$565kOther$0
02FY2025 · 209 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $162k
  • $10k–50k88 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k78 grants · $8.5M
  • $250k+22 grants · $12M
$37,500
Median grant
44
States reached
$563M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NT GREEN FUND INC$1,700,000
ST JAMES AME CHURCH$1,413,451
HISTORIC BROWN CHAPEL AME$1,020,000
ROBERTS TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST$1,000,000
MONTPELIER FDN$551,588
ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH$500,000
MT CARMEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST$500,000
GLIDE FOUNDATION$500,000
NEW BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH$500,000
FIRST CONG CHURCH OF MARION (UCC)$500,000
QUINN CHAPEL AME FREDERICK$500,000
ST ALPHONSUS LIGUORI$499,999
BOYNTON CHAPEL METHODIST$475,000
DICKERSON CHAPEL AME CHURCH$400,000
CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOC$300,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%MARY ELIZA FREEMAN CENTER HISTORY COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%COLORADO SPRINGS CHILD NURSERY CENTERS INC: $10k → 9%EMMETT TILL MEMORIAL COMMISSION: $120k → 31%POC COLLABORATIVE CRC: $100k → 12%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $10k → 9%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH W ASSOC: $150k → 10%EARLY CONNECTIONS LEARNING CENTERS: $10k → 9%WILLIAMS DUMAS BUILDING REST: $80k → 31%NATIONAL CENTER OF AFRO-AMERICAN ARTISTS: $75k → 16%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $85k → 15%HANDS ON HARTFORD INC DBA GATHER55: $40k → 11%MATHEWSON STREET CHURCH: $50k → 14%ALPHA GENESIS COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $25k → 15%Roxbury Cultural District: $50k → 16%NIHONMACHI LITTLE FRIENDS: $150k → 10%BYRD BARR PLACE: $50k → 9%YMCA OF HONOLULU: $10k → 9%YWCA OF SEATTLE I KING I SNOHOMISH: $10k → 9%PA Ave MNST MD: $148k → 19%PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMM CENTER: $75k → 11%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $33k → 12%UNITED ORDER OF TENTS: $100k → 20%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $21k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $17k → 12%Drayton Hall Preservation Trust: $16k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $11k → 12%Drayton Hall Preservation Trust: $6k → 12%DRAYTON HALL PRESERVATION TRUST: $6k → 12%FDR MEMORIAL LEGACY: $30k → 14%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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31M · 196 repeat orgs$58M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

196 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 142 since wound down; 151 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

196
702

Total granted

$31M
$44M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+3%

Still filing today

73%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +73% · 34% of their budget
  • MF
    MONTPELIER FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +80%
  • RB
    ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $812k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • HV
    HISTORIC VERNON A M E CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $400k
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST INC
    one grant, 2019 · $375k
  • SM
    ST MARY & ARCHANGEL MICHAEL COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
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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Saint Peters Landmark Preservation Trust
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2
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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3
1866

Historic preservation & community engagement

Environment
4
Le Sueur Theatre Historic Preservation Corporation
Arts & Culture
5
Upperville Preservation Society
Environment
6
Redwood County Historical Society

Historical preservation

Arts & Culture
7
Preservation Delaware
Arts & Culture
8
National Council for Preservation Education
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9
Rosa Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Heritage Society of Washington County

Preservation of histrical buildings

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11
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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12
Jacksonville Historical District Inc

To promote and preserve the historal buildings in the jacksonville historal district

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restore Oregon Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tr Uw R H Mosley Women's Ctr. 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

587 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. 587 of the 1,058 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.

81
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
163
Early backer (in before they grew)
563/587
Grantees still filing
316/587
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY: $2,397,777 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERYST JAMES AME CHURCH: $1,833,951 · OtherROBERTS TEMPLE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $1,253,000 · Other+125 more: $31,584,101 · Other+125 moreMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $1,290,850 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER FOUNDATI…Villa Finale Museum & Gardens: $684,105 · Arts & CultureVilla Finale Museum…The Palmetto Trust For Historic Preservation Inc: $525,000 · Arts & CultureThe Palmetto Trust …Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium: $405,000 · Arts & CultureFILOLI CENTER: $385,423 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $374,750 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE COLTRANE HOME IN DIX HILLS: $351,138 · Arts & CulturePRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME: $348,581 · Arts & CultureOATLANDS INC: $334,745 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $5,075,938 · Arts & Culture+26 moreNT GREEN FUND INC: $1,700,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN DANVILLE ASSOCIATION DBA RIVER DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $170,000 · Community ImprovementHEART OF BIDDEFORD: $170,000 · Community ImprovementSWEET AUBURN WORKS: $164,000 · Community ImprovementBetter Days 2020: $160,000 · Community ImprovementHouston Freedmen's Town Conservancy Inc: $155,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH MEMPHIS RENEWAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL MAIN STREET CENTER INC: $145,976 · Community ImprovementPRESERVATION ALLIANCE OF NEW ORLEANS IN: $137,000 · Community ImprovementTuskegee University: $323,750 · EducationTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $245,000 · EducationStillman College: $205,000 · EducationKENNARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION LARRIE S JONES CULTURAL: $160,000 · EducationJackson State University Development Foundation Inc: $158,000 · EducationVoorhees College: $155,000 · EducationMorris College: $155,000 · EducationRUST COLLEGE: $155,000 · EducationDILLARD UNIVERSITY: $155,000 · EducationMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationLAKE ERIE COLLEGE: $150,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $150,000 · EducationVirginia State University Alumni Association: $150,000 · EducationGLIDE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · ReligionST JOSAPHAT BASILICA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · ReligionTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LB: $250,000 · ReligionHIGHLAND GREEN FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · ReligionFIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF THOMASVILLE INC: $155,000 · ReligionTHE DREAM CENTER OF COLUMBUS INC: $150,000 · ReligionROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC: $812,208 · PhilanthropyHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $250,000 · Human ServicesNihonmachi Little Friends: $150,000 · Human ServicesFirst Baptist Church-West Community Services Association Inc: $150,000 · Human ServicesUpton Planning Committee Inc: $148,000 · Human Services
Other$37,068,829Arts & Culture$9,775,530Community Improvement$3,201,976Education$2,311,750Religion$1,555,000Philanthropy$1,422,208Human Services$698,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY: $2,397,777 over 7y, 34% of budgetNT GREEN FUND INC: $1,700,000 over 1y, 93% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $1,290,850 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC: $812,208 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVilla Finale Museum & Gardens: $684,105 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCLIVEDEN OF THE NATIONAL TRUST INC: $673,774 over 9y, 30% of budgetThe Palmetto Trust For Historic Preservation Inc: $525,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAlabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium: $405,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFILOLI CENTER: $385,423 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $374,750 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COLTRANE HOME IN DIX HILLS: $351,138 over 2y, 30% of budgetPRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME: $348,581 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetOATLANDS INC: $334,745 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetTuskegee University: $323,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of African American History Inc: $319,890 over 5y, 12% of budgetBRUCEMORE INC: $280,833 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetTHE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT: $275,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetST JOSAPHAT BASILICA FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetSOAPSTONE PRESERVATION ENDOWMENT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetTHE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LB: $250,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOLD SPANISH MISSIONS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetRUSSIAN ORTHODOX SACRED SITES IN AK: $250,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetHERITAGE FUND - THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetURBAN JUNCTURE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetBROAD STREET MINISTRY: $250,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetPATRONATO SAN XAVIER: $250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetFAMICOS FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE SHAW UNIVERSITY: $245,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGAYLORD BUILDING HISTORIC SITE: $224,401 over 2y, 64% of budgetStillman College: $205,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBlack American West Museum & Herit: $200,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetHISTORIC TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH- SELMA AL LEGACY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetBLUE GRASS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPleasant Street Civil Rights and Cultural Arts: $200,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetPRESERVATION BUFFALO NIAGARA: $183,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetOLD SARDIS REVITALIZATION COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $180,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $180,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN DANVILLE ASSOCIATION DBA RIVER DISTRICT ASSOCIATION: $170,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HALL OF FAME INC: $170,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetHEART OF BIDDEFORD: $170,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetMISSISSIPPI HERITAGE TRUST: $169,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMAIN STREET MOUNT PLEASANT: $165,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE: $165,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetSWEET AUBURN WORKS: $164,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetCINCINNATI PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION: $163,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetSan Francisco Architectural Heritage: $162,958 over 2y, 13% of budgetHISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION: $160,200 over 2y, 9.3% 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 ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC CONGRESSIONAL CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds NT GREEN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER BROTHERS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Villa Finale Museum & Gardens ↗
  • Who funds CLIVEDEN OF THE NATIONAL TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds The Palmetto Trust For Historic Preservation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium ↗
  • Who funds FILOLI CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COLTRANE HOME IN DIX HILLS ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME ↗
  • Who funds OATLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds Museum of African American History Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRUCEMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WEEKSVILLE & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

1772 Foundation IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…Tom Joyner Foundation…National Park Foundat…United Negro College …New York Landmarks Co…Co Tua Marion S Covin…Cities for Financial …New York Council for …Urban Sustainability …Historic Preservation…Greater Hudson Herita…
1772 Foundation IncNJ69.5× affinity44 shared granteesties to 5 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 1772 Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Tom Joyner Foundation Inc · National Park Foundation · United Negro College Fund Inc · New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc · Co Tua Marion S Covington Fdn · Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund Inc · New York Council for the Humanities · Urban Sustainability Directors Network · Historic Preservation Education Foundation · Greater Hudson Heritage Network

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 Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Upton Planning Committee Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 1058 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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