Indiana · Nonprofit
Organization of American Historians
Organization of American Historians (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $784,382 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($542,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $784k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Organization of American Historians does
Mission
The Organization promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable treatment of all practitioners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Journal of american history-published four times a year, the journal of american history is the leading scholarly publication and the journal of record in american history. In addition to the print issues, the journal creates a wide range of online projects, including the biannual teaching of the journal of american history and special projects. Organization of American Historians (oah) members also have access to a vast citation database, recent scholarship online. The journal makes selected content freely available, including web site reviews, the textbooks and teaching section, and the recent scholarship print listing. Approximately 8,200 copies are printed each quarter and the journal is considered a primary benefit to our members.
$1,248,171 spentof which $49,510 as grants$1,228,803 earned by the program57% of program spendingAnnual meeting - held annually, the oah annual meeting is a scholarly conference for american historians. The conference includes board and committee meetings, an exhibit hall for historical publishers, academic sessions, tours, receptions, an award presentation ceremony, and teaching history workshops.
$670,363 spent$456,907 earned by the program30% of program spendingCollaborative projects-because of the organization's reputation in the field, the Organization of American Historians (oah) enjoys a vibrant partnership with the national park service. This entails collaborating on a variety of historical scholarly projects including research, interpretation, and public outreach. In the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the organization coordinated 40 different projects. The oah also partners with the american history research association of china and the japanese association for american studies to administer international residency programs for american, chinese, and japanese scholars.
$179,491 spent$144,315 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther publications-during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the Organization of American Historians (oah) published four issues of a digital magazine, the american historian. This publication is produced on a quarterly basis. This publication is considered a membership benefit and is delivered online.
$106,213 spent$9,156 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,204,238.
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 $3.1M to $4.2M (+34%).
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: 2021 12% · 2022 12% · 2023 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of Organization of American Historians’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $275k → $26k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Organization of American Historians’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Organization of American Historians leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 96% · 2022 75% · 2023 82% — 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
50% of Organization of American Historians's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
Organization of American Historians draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Indiana, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Organization of American Historians's revenue fell 24% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Organization of American Historians receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.9M on record.
- Department of the Interior$3.5M
- National Endowment for the Humanities$425k
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.
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In Indiana
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
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Organization of American Historians: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Organization of American Historians?
- Organization of American Historians (Indiana) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $784,382 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($542,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Organization of American Historians have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $784,382 in grants to Organization of American Historians, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Organization of American Historians?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $542,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Organization of American Historians find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 11 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing