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Foundations that fund digital humanities research
15 private foundations with a record of paying for digital humanities, taken from their IRS Form 990-PF filings. These are grants already made — evidence of what a funder backs, not an open call.
THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION
21 grants · $17.6M · through 2023
Largest: $566,000 to DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — to support further development of, and sustainability planning for reviews in digital humanities, an open-access journal that provides peer review and indexing of digital humanities projects
IRS filings for EIN 131879954THE FORD FOUNDATION
20 grants · $2.3M · through 2023
Largest: $50,000 to NEW NEGRESS FILM COLLECTIVE LLC — for convening, research, and archiving initiatives that build the creative capacity, cultural power and visibility of black women and non-binary filmmakers
IRS filings for EIN 131684331FOUNDATION TO PROMOTE OPEN SOCIETY
7 grants · $1.5M · through 2023
Largest: $285,644 to FONDATION POUR L'INSTITUT DE HAUTES ETUDES INTERNA — to support two research projects on digital health & human rights and business models for medicine research & development in the global south
IRS filings for EIN 263753801WILLIAM T KEMPER FOUNDATION
9 grants · $426,145 · through 2022
Largest: $104,000 to UMKC FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES — william t. kemper associate professor in digital humanities over 5 years
IRS filings for EIN 436345116ALFRED P SLOAN FOUNDATION
3 grants · $552,310 · through 2023
Largest: $243,922 to WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — to support the completion of an app to allow blind and visually impaired (bvi) users to read, explore, and research digitized, archived accessible graphic narratives
IRS filings for EIN 131623877JOHN S AND JAMES L KNIGHT FOUNDATION
4 grants · $824,779 · through 2023
Largest: $224,779 to ROCKEFELLER ARCHIVE CENTER — to promote public understanding of knight foundation history through the transfer of its archives to an independent center that specializes in the preservation of philanthropic records and in providing access and outreach to researchers.
IRS filings for EIN 650464177OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE
4 grants · $1.5M · through 2023
Largest: $900,000 to THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — to support the citizens labs work on researching issues around human rights and the digital space
IRS filings for EIN 137029285THE FAVROT FUND
2 grants · $120,000 · through 2024
Largest: $60,000 to GLENWOOD CEMETERY HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION (LMF) — the glenwood cemetery historic preservation foundation was formed in 1999 to raise funds for the preservation of historic glenwood cemetery (1871) to pay for tree and landscape maintenance, repairs and restoration of historic monuments and special projects like erosion control. the purpose of the grant is to provide funding as follows: $45,000 for construction of the center for glenwood, which will serve both lot owners and the houston community to provide an ample gathering space to host events, provide access to glenwoods archives for research, engage the community through programming and other offerings and advance and promote glenwoods historic significant in the city of houston; and $15,000 for general maintenance of the cemetery.
IRS filings for EIN 760638639The Wallace Foundation
2 grants · $69,752 · through 2023
Largest: $19,752 to South Asian American Digital Archive NFP — to conduct a survey, focus groups, interviews, and archival research to investigate the resources arts organizations of color need to document, preserve, and share their own histories.
IRS filings for EIN 136183757THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION
3 grants · $465,000 · through 2023
Largest: $50,000 to NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION — towards the cost to research, convenings and thought leadership to promote innovative solutions building new institutions (or transforming existing ones) to address climate change or promote more equitable and human-centered use of digital technology
IRS filings for EIN 131659629KAHR FOUNDATION-IMA
1 grant · $1.0M · through 2023
Largest: $1.0M to THE NATIONAL WWII MUSEUM — digital infrastructure transformation, the center for archival research and digitization
IRS filings for EIN 432093439Luminate Foundation Inc
3 grants · $335,000 · through 2023
Largest: $135,000 to Estonian Human Rights Centre — support estonia human rights to develop digital rights program/watchdog activities
IRS filings for EIN 823941326EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWISH HERITAGE
1 grant · $822,000 · through 2022
Largest: $822,000 to MAGYAR HOLOKAUSZT KUTATASI ES OKTATAS — funding to extensively historically document the holocaust through individual oral documentation and accounts, researching historical archives, and technical research to provide the public a guide and answers on the historical facts of the holocaust in hungary and throughout europe througheducational programs and free access to holocaust education guides.
IRS filings for EIN 472767206THE PATRICK J MCGOVERN FOUNDATION INC
5 grants · $1.7M · through 2023
Largest: $1.5M to UNITED NATIONS — to support the protection of human equity in a digital age in collaboration with the office of the un secretary-general's envoy on technology (oset)
IRS filings for EIN 223021586THE SUNDERLAND FOUNDATION
1 grant · $100,000 · through 2022
Largest: $100,000 to DOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — watkins museum research & archives renovation
IRS filings for EIN 446011082
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Start with one paperSource: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, filing years 2019–2023. Foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.