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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 FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $34k
$2,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Where the grant dollars land

Across the US and around the world.

US giving: 86% of grant dollars ($414k). The 14% that went abroad ($68k) is mapped below.

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

Beyond the US: 14% of all-years giving ($68k)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Japan$27k · 3 grants
Philippines$18k · 1 grant
Canada$11k · 4 grants
Germany$6k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$3k · 3 grants
Turkey$2k · 1 grant
Taiwan$2k · 1 grant
Russia$500 · 1 grant
How this is measured
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$159k · 11 repeat orgs$323k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
108

Total granted

$159k
$247k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2021–2023 · $33k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2024 · $29k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2019–2021 · $27k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
04the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 144 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)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $33,167 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $29,005 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,010 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,500 · Other+138 more: $323,194 · Other+138 more
Other$481,876

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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.

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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