· Private foundation
The Packard Humanities Institute
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k3 grants · $387k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IRISH INSTITUTE OF HELLENIC STUDIES ATHENS | $1,400,000 |
| STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD | $320,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL IN ATHENS | $312,000 |
| LEIDEN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM | $87,040 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 60% of grant dollars ($43M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 40% that went abroad ($29M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 40% of all-years giving ($29M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of The Packard Humanities Institute’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $8.4M · revenue +12% · 100% of their budget
- GEGEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · $5.7M · revenue +62%
- OSOPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED6× · 2017–2023 · $4.1M · revenue +70%
Funded once
The Trustees of Princeton Universityone grant, 2022 · $2.6M · revenue -36%- BSBRITISH SCHOOL OF ATHENSone grant, 2022 · $2.5M
- IPINSTITUTO PACKARD PER I BENI CULTURALIone grant, 2023 · $2.2M
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.
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
To create a transformative educational experience for students focused on deep disciplinary knowledge; problem solving; leadership, communication and interpersonal skills; and personal health and well-being. to cultivate a transformative…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE STANFORD THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds GEORGE EASTMAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Founding Fathers Papers Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds American Friends of LoveItaly ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY OPERA ↗
- Who funds Marlboro School of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA BOTANICAL GARDEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds Cinequest Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Packard Humanities Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Packard Humanities Institute. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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