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THE NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION FOUN
Our purposes are to encourage, accept and administer private gifts to promote and ensure the preservation and public accessibility of the nation's sound recording heritage held at the library of congress and other public and nonprofit archives throughout the united states; and to further the goals of the library of congress and the…
$28k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants
3
Communities
$11k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Arts & Culture$68kEducation$33kPhilanthropy$9kOther$19k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
field recordingsdigitize preserve
2020
recordeddigitize preserverecordings
2021
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2023
digitize
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$8,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
- APPALSHOP INC$11,350
- WYSO - MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA$8,500
- UC SANTA BARBARA LIBRARY$8,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 11%. 77% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
The Museum of Russian Art
The museum of russian art collects, preserves, exhibits, and illuminates the rich artistic tapestry of russia, past and present, through outstanding exhibitions and public programs for all audiences.
Arts & Culture
2
Auburn University Foundation
The organization operates for the exclusive benefit of auburn university, an educational, land-grant institution which is tax exempt under irc section 115.
Education
3
New York Public Radio
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful, see schedule o.
Arts & Culture
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation
To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.
Education
5
The Florida State University Foundation
The florida state university foundation enhances the academic mission and vision of florida state university through its organized fundraising activities and funds management. the fsu foundation accomplishes its mission by fostering…
Education
6
Anchorage Museum Foundation
To provide support to the anchorage musuem association for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.
Arts & Culture
7
Illinois State University Foundation
To hold & administer gifts with the primary objective of serving the educational purposes of isu.
Education
8
University of Wyoming Foundation
To lift up the university of wyoming with the power of philanthropy.
Education
9
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.
Education
10
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Inspire diverse audiences through exhibitions, education, publications & collections.
Arts & Culture
11
State University of Iowa Foundation
To advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy.
Education
12
University of Mississippi Foundation
The university of mississippi foundation is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1973 by the state of mississippi to operate primarily for the benefit of the university of mississippi. the foundation is responsible for receiving,…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Folk Art Museum and the most unlike its peers is Museum of Russian Culture. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Arts & Culture$68,180Education$33,049Other$18,653Philanthropy$8,500
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WORLD MUSIC PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds APPALSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WYSO - MIAMI VALLEY PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN CULTURE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE NATIONAL RECORDING PRESERVATION FOUN funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN CULTURE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~189 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 946102862 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN CULTURE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 189 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The National Recording Preservation Foun?
Find your warmest path to The National Recording Preservation Foun through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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