Newberry Library

Your funders

110 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 Of these, 74 are locally focused, 23 have national reach, and 13 are no longer active.

• Lilly Endowment Incone-time$2,256,078
• Roy and Irene Rettinger Foundation6 years$1,295,000
• John D & Catherine T Macarthur Foundation7 years$697,775
• Terra Foundation for American Art5 years$386,800
• Jerome Nerenberg 2000 Charitable Tr6 years$372,890

Showing 5 of 110. See all 132 funders

22 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 11,682 funding connections →

8 Libraries funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Gerber Hart Library and ArchivesIL4 shared funders
• The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden FoundationsNY4 shared funders
• American Antiquarian SocietyMA3 shared funders
• Creative Commons CorporationCA3 shared funders
• Digital Public Library of AmericaMA3 shared funders
• Library Company of PhiladelphiaPA3 shared funders
• Proprietors of the Boston AthenaeumMA3 shared funders
• South Asian American Digital Archive NfpPA3 shared funders

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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.