Grants for humanities organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to humanities nonprofit organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
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387 humanities nonprofit organizations received at least $1.2 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 541 grants made from 439 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,500. Of these 439 foundations, 89% made just a single grant to humanities orgs, and 2% made grants to four or more humanities orgs. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$1,162,735

Total grant dollars given to humanities organizations

541

Number of grants made annually to humanities organizations

439

Number of grantmakers funding humanities organizations

$1,500

Median grant size to humanities organizations

Foundations that support humanities nonprofit organizations

Out of all grants made to humanities organizations, 69% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 12% of the dollar-value of grants to humanities orgs. Foundations funding humanities orgs also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, educational service providers, colleges, youth development programs, and art museums.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	307
Medium	75
Large	57

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	10
Private	376
Corporate	28
Other	25

Grants made

Grants made to humanities orgs	Number of grantmakers
1	394
2-3	34
4-10	10
11+	1

Top 10 foundations supporting humanities nonprofit organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to humanities orgs	Number of grants made to humanities orgs	Median grant size
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.0%	17	$1,600
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.0%	9	$1,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	8	$400
Academy of American Poets	NY	National	8.3%	6	$4,225
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.0%	6	$125
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.1%	5	$2,468
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.1%	5	$104
Dollar General Literacy Foundation	TN	National	0.1%	4	$3,000
The Saratoga Charitable Foundation	DE	State	15.0%	4	$3,250
The Ford Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	4	$1,125

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Humanities nonprofit organizations grantees

Humanities organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 15% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 16% of all humanities orgs.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	541
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	0

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,000
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$2,500
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,115

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
New York	94
California	78
Washington	37
Massachusetts	28
Other	304

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	81
San Francisco	31
Los Angeles	29
Seattle	27
Other	329

Top 25 grants made to humanities organizations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Center for Inquiry	$5,000	General & Unrestricted	Stiefel Freethought Foundation
Write Around Portland	$5,000	Charitable	Weinstein Family Foundation
826 New Orleans	$5,000	General Assistance	Zurich Classic of New Orleans
SS Cosmas E Damian Society	$5,000	Unrestricted General	Privitera Family Charitable Foundation
The New Review	$5,000	General Support	Russian Nobility Association in America
Santa Fe Council on International Relations	$5,000	Q03 International Foreign Affairs Associations	The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository
The Thurber House	$5,000	Arts and Humanities	The Columbus Foundation
Jason Taylor Foundation	$5,000	Program Support	The Miami Foundation
PENFaulkner Foundation	$5,000	Toward Pen/faulknepenfaulknerer Programs in Schools	Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop	$5,000	General Funding	The Helgeson Foundation
Archipelago Books	$5,000	For the Book: "in the Land of the Cyclops"	J M Kaplan Fund
826chi	$5,000	Public Charity	Susan Crown Exchange
Fan Foundation / Spocon	$5,000	Donor Advised Funds	Global Impact
The Arizona Branch of the International Dyslexia Association	$5,000	General Support	United Phoenix Fire Fighters Association
Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures	$5,000	Arts	The Clark Hunter Foundation
Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy	$5,000	Other (Literacy, Computers, Libraries)	Greater Houston Community Foundation
Young Writers Project	$5,000	General Support	Birdseye Foundation
The Rabbit Hole KC	$5,000	Program Grant	The Shumaker Family Foundation
Undocumented Migration Project	$5,000	Sponsorship	The City College 21ST Century Foundation
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities	$5,000	Arts & Culture	Woldenberg Foundation
The Center for Documentary Studies	$5,000	Program Support	Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation
826 National	$5,000	Charitable Donation	Valla Family Foundation
PEN American Center	$5,000	Charitable Exempt Purpose	The William H Pitt Foundation
Pittsburgh Arts and Lectures	$5,000	To Present Nyt Journalist Jodi Kantor Discussing Reporting on Sexual Harassment By Harvey Weinstein	Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)
The Cabin / Log Cabin Literary Center Inc	$5,000	General Support	Harad Family Foundation

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Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Humanities organizations" category for this page is determined by the "A70: Humanities Organizations" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.