The Packard Humanities Institute

What they fund

expensesexcavationsfilmstaffstanfordtheatreagorabuilding

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

• National Philanthropic Trust1 grant · $7.1M
• Stanford Theatre Foundation5 grants · $5.2M
• George Eastman Museum5 grants · $3.2M
• Princeton University1 grant · $2.6M
• American School of Classical Studies in Athens1 grant · $2.5M
• British School of Athens1 grant · $2.5M
• Instituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali4 grants · $2.2M
• St John'S University1 grant · $2.0M
• Istituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali2 grants · $1.4M
• Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies Athens1 grant · $1.4M

Giving over time

Grant history

All 45 reported grants, largest first.

• $7.1M

  National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2022

  General support

• $2.6M

  Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022

  Support of founding father operating expenses

• $2.5M

  American School of Classical Studies in Athens · 2023

  Support of the agora excavations poject

• $2.5M

  British School of Athens · 2022

  Knossos research center

• $2.0M

  St John'S University · Jamaica, NY · 2022

  Support of st john's hill museum and manuscript library

• $2.0M

  Stanford Theatre Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2022

  Stanford theatre general operating expenses

• $1.9M

  George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2022

  Support for the motion picture department

• $1.4M

  Irish Institute of Hellenic Studies Athens · 2024

  To support the purchase of building to house the irish isntitute

• $1.3M

  Instituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2023

  Support the regular activities of herculaneum project

• $1.3M

  Stanford Theatre Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2023

  Continued support including roof replacement

• $1.1M

  International Mozarteum Foundation · 2023

  Support of staff salaries and general expenses of the digital mozart edition

• $1.0M

  Stanford Theatre Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2024

  To support stanford theatre building refurbishment

• $880,000

  Istituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2022

  Support herculaneum conservation project

• $750,500

  Opera San Jose · San Jose, CA · 2022

  General production support

• $750,000

  Stanford Theatre Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2023

  Renovation of hvac system

• $575,000

  George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023

  Support of funding for 3 new nitrate vaults

• $540,000

  Istituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2022

  Support projects on purchased land

• $500,000

  Opera San Jose · San Jose, CA · 2023

  Support of general operations

• $500,000

  Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Support harvard university the i tatti renaissance library

• $420,000

  Oxford University · 2022

  Support the cultures of knowledge project

• $378,277

  George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023

  Support of funding for 6 staff positions for 2023-2024

• $330,000

  Instituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2023

  Support land purchase activities - set aside

• $320,000

  University of Oxford · 2024

  Charitable donation

• $312,000

  American School in Athens · 2024

  To support the agora excavations poject

• $300,000

  UCLA Film Archive · Santa Clarita, CA · 2022

  Support of ucla film radio collection conservation and inventory project

• $280,000

  Dipylon Society · 2023

  Mapping ancient athens

• $272,000

  Instituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2023

  Support auditing, administrative and legal costs

• $250,000

  Leiden University · 2024

  To support for the study of the hinterland of medieval chalkida

• $250,000

  Instituto Packard Per I Beni Culturali · 2023

  Support the via mare project

• $210,000

  George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2023

  Support of film preservation project

• $200,000

  Stanford Theatre Foundation · Los Altos, CA · 2024

  To support stanford theatre general operating expenses.

• $112,200

  University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN · 2022

  Support of excavations at butrint

• $100,000

  UCLA Film Archive · Santa Clarita, CA · 2024

  To sof collection services staff salaries and benefits

• $100,000

  UCLA Film Archive · Santa Clarita, CA · 2022

  Support of ucla film preservation work by ucla film & television archive 7/1/22-6/30/23

• $87,040

  George Eastman Museum · Rochester, NY · 2024

  To support funding of staffing positions

• $65,000

  Opera San Jose · San Jose, CA · 2023

  Support of the streaming of alma deutshcer's opera cinderella

• $30,000

  American Friends of Loveitaly · Menlo Park, CA · 2023

  Charitable donation

• $30,000

  American Society of Papyrologists · Durham, NC · 2023

  Charitable donation

• $30,000

  American Friends of Leipzig Bach-Archiv · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Charitable donation

• $30,000

  American Friends of Loveitaly · Menlo Park, CA · 2022

  Charitable donation

• $15,000

  North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2023

  Charitable donation

• $15,000

  Marlboro School of Music · Philadelphia, PA · 2022

  Charitable donation

• $15,000

  North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022

  Charitable donation

• $10,000

  Boston Early Music Festival · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Charitable donation

• $3,000

  President and Fellows of Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

  Charitable donation

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