The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation

EIN 136068485 Private Foundation

New York, NY 10004 |(212) 558-4000

http://cromwellfoundation.org/
Total Given 2020–2023
$723K
59 grants · $181K avg/year
based on 4 yrs of IRS 990-PF records on file
$100K+/yr
local funder
capacity
$5K
typical small grants · $5K–$14K
grant size
8%
transactional · 4/51 multi-year
repeat
$3.6M
Assets (2023)
51
Distinct Recipients

Focus Areas

Arts & Culture

Application Information

Accepts Unsolicited Proposals Unknown
Contact Person John D Gordan III
Phone (212) 558-4000
Deadlines September 1
How to Apply Each applicant for a prize, fellowship or grant should follow the procedures for submitting a proposal on the Prizes, Fellowships and Grants section of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation website (http://cromwellfoundation.org/prizes-fellowships-grants/).
Restrictions Awards are made in connection with the study of American legal history with some emphasis on the Colonial period. There is no set dollar limit on awards, but the awards generally are limited to the Foundation's available net income as defined under Chapter 42 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Financial Trends

Giving Over Time

Total Assets Over Time

View financial data as table
YearTotal GivingTotal AssetsRevenueGrants
2020 $177K $4.0M $195K 13
2021 $162K $4.3M $364K 14
2022 $201K $3.6M $102K 15
2023 $183K $3.6M $198K 17

Grant Size Distribution

Based on 59 grants on record

Minimum
$5K
25th Pctl
$5K
Median
$5K
Average
$12K
75th Pctl
$14K
Maximum
$60K

Geographic Distribution

Texas Counties Served

1.9% of US grants · Rank #13 of 23 states $5K across 1 grant 1 of 254 counties

Top 1 counties

  1. 1 Hidalgo 1 grant · $5K

Officers & Directors

Grants Awarded (59 total)

Purpose
The National Archives (UK) Richmond, None $60,000 Prize Papers Collection Project and Cataloguing Court's Papers 2023
The National Archives (UK) Richmond, None $50,000 Unsorted Prize Papers of the American War of Independence 2020
Laura Kalman Washington, DC $48,150 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court Grant 2022
The National Archives (UK) Richmond, None $40,000 Grant - Prize Papers Collection 2022
The National Archives (UK) Richmond, None $40,000 Unsorted Prize Papers of the American War of Independence 2021
The University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA $27,068 Washington Family Papers Project 2020
Sally Hadden Kalamazoo, MI $26,500 One Supreme Court Grant 2022
University of Maryland College Park, MD $25,000 Inheritable Blood: Slavery & Sovereignty in Early America and the British Empire 2020
University of Delaware - University Development Newark, DE $25,000 Dr. Jane Calvert, The John Dickinson Writing Project 2021
University of Delaware - University Development Newark, DE $25,000 Dr. Jane Calvert, The John Dickinson Writings Project 2023
The University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA $23,000 The Washington Family Papers Project 2021
Yale University - Yale University Development New Haven, CT $21,000 Litchfield Notebook Project 2021
The Historical Society of the New York Courts White Plains, NY $20,000 Book Project, The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Antebellum Fight for Freedom 2022
Professor Sally Hadden Kalamazoo, MI $20,000 One Supreme Court 2020
Laura Kalman Goleta, CA $17,869 Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court Grant 2023
University of Delaware - University Development Newark, DE $10,000 Dr. Jane Calvert, The John Dickinson Writings Project 2022
Board of Regents University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI $10,000 John Kaminski's Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights 2022
New York State Archives Partnership Trust Albany, NY $10,000 Enemies of the State: Rediscovering the Patriot-Loyalist Struggle in Revolutionary New York 2020
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI $10,000 Documentary History of the American War of Independence 2020
Board of Regents University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI $10,000 John Kaminski's Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights 2023
Gregory Ablavsky Redwood City, CA $10,000 Legal History Article of the Year Prize 2023
Hendrik Hartog Princeton, NJ $8,000 Jack Robbins Book Project 2021
The Washington Papers Charlottesville, VA $6,000 The Washington Family Papers Project 2022
Gregory Ablavsky Stanford, CA $5,000 Book Prize 2022
Ivon Padilla-Rodriguez Chicago, IL $5,000 Dissertation Prize 2022

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