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Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$94k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
86%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$17,500
Organizations funded a year
24 to 28
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$2.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY2024still arriving28$94k89%
FY202328$80k86%
FY202226$75k88%
FY202124$74k92%
FY202028$81k89%
FY201925$78kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$274kScience & Tech$85kReligion$39kSocial Science$38kArts & Culture$5kHealth$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Individual grant recipient$17,500
Individual grant recipient$16,667
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000

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About Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations

How much does Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations give?
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations reported 30 grants totaling $93,667 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (57%), Science & Tech (18%), Religion (8%).
Does Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations based?
Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations is based in TN.

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 144 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $82k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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