Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 408 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,181,912 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,160,920). 235 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $105M
- Funders on record
- 408
- Grants received
- $90M
- Net assets
- $503M
What National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States does
Mission
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.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Historic preservation & conservation: preservation services includes: 1) work to save threatened historic places across the country; 2) research, information and technical assistance to members, private and public organizations, and government bodies with respect to contemporary preservation issues and rehabilitation projects related to important historic buildings, landscapes, and landmarks; 3) financial assistance/grants and technical support through programs including the african american cultural heritage action fund, the backing historic small restaurants, and the national fund for sacred places grant programs; these programs support the preservation of historic buildings, landscapes, and collections; public interpretation of historic places; capacity-building; preservation education programs, conferences, and retention of professional consultants; 4) partnerships with state and local private nonprofit preservation groups to develop resources to promote preservation as a solution to important national issues, support the financial sustainability of significant historic sites, and advance best practices in preservation.
$34,886,236 spentof which $21,412,607 as grants$82,613 earned by the program45% of program spendingHistoric sites - the national trust and its partners are the stewards of 27 national trust historic sites which are open to the public. They are a nationally significant collection of historic places that include a wide variety of architectural styles, structures, landscapes, and object collections that bring diverse stories of american history to life. In 2024/2025, the national trust owned and managed 10 of these sites; owned 11 sites (one through a long-term lease) that are managed by independent local organizations; and provided limited support to six other sites that are owned and managed by other entities. These historic sites welcomed over 1,282,000 visitors in 2024/2025. The history, stories, people, collections, architecture, and landscapes of these sites are interpreted to on-site visitors, and through digital programs, social media, websites, and written communication to millions more. The sites serve their communities by providing educational programs, events, and unique gathering places for community residents. The national trust and its partner organizations maintain the sites as good models for historic preservation, collections management, interpretation, and…
$34,048,225 spentof which $462,561 as grants$4,626,779 earned by the program44% of program spendingHistoric preservation & conservation: education - communicates the importance of historic preservation, threats to historic places, and achievements in saving historic places to members and the public. Produces an annual conference, webinars, and in-person trainings, quarterly magazine, professional journal, audience newsletters, and websites to highlight important preservation issues, communicate preservation successes, and stimulate new interest in historic preservation. To inspire action by the public, stages media campaigns such as the 11 most endangered historic places list. Provides information about the legal and policy aspects of historic preservation. Historic preservation & conservation: membership outreach - educate the general public on the importance of and techniques for preserving the nation's architectural and cultural heritage. Historic preservation and conservation: publications include: 1) "preservation," the quarterly magazine chronicling individuals and programs working to save historic places; 2) "forum journal," a scholarly journal serving a network of preservation professionals, students and volunteers; 3) www.savingplaces.org and…
$8,355,563 spentof which $35,600 as grants$413,014 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $77,290,024.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $364M to $456M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 6% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 2% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (56% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Carol Quillen
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 156 funders, grant income rose $3.9M → $12M.
68 of 408 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $5k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 408 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
40% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 38% · 2019 64% · 2020 37% · 2021 73% · 2022 45% · 2023 28% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
41% of NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 39 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35M arriving through sponsors registered in 27 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 43 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 43 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record — $8.2M federal, $62k state.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$4.8M
- Department of the Interior$2.8M
- National Endowment for the Arts$255k
- Smithsonian Institution$198k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$186k
- Grant$62k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
50%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Part of a family of 18 related entities
- National Trust Tours LLC · disregarded
- National Trust Investment Management LLC · disregarded
- National Trust Equity LLC · disregarded
- Nt Historic Real Estate Equity Fund LLC · disregarded
- National Main Street Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 408 organizations whose IRS filings report $90,181,912 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($21,160,920). 235 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES have?
- IRS filings report 408 organizations giving $90,181,912 in grants to NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 235 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $21,160,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 408 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing