Field Museum of Natural History

Your funders

277 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 181 are locally focused, 68 have national reach, and 28 are no longer active.

• Negaunee Foundation Ltd5 years$18,856,500
• Sue Ling Gin Foundation Tr3 years$10,325,000
• Gantz Family Foundation7 years$6,002,300
• Lilly Endowment Inc4 years$4,503,726
• Walder Family Foundation5 years$2,795,918

Showing 5 of 277. See all 315 funders

38 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 21,304 funding connections →

71 Museum, Museum Activities funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Adler PlanetariumIL45 shared funders
• Chicago Historical SocietyIL33 shared funders
• Chicago Childrens MuseumIL22 shared funders
• Kohl Childrens Museum of Greater Chicago IncIL22 shared funders
• Chicago Academy of SciencesIL13 shared funders
• Renaissance Society at the University of ChicagoIL10 shared funders
• The Richard H Driehaus MuseumIL10 shared funders
• Glessner House MuseumIL9 shared funders

See all 71 Museum, Museum Activities peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.