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Archaeological Institute of America

The ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (aia) promotes archaeological inquiry and public understanding of the material record of the human past to foster an appreciation of the diverse cultures and our shared humanity.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$433kEducation$228kScience & Tech$64kInternational$30k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $48,125 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $299,126 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $251,001 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS$19,625
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY$15,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS$7,500
PENN MUSEUM$6,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CARLETON COLLEGE: $34k → 11%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $7k → 12%TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $30k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION: $14k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ: $25k → 13%RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR SUNY: $15k → 14%CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS: $5k → 16%CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $20k → 17%BAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY PRESS: $8k → 22%WINTHROP UNIVERSITY: $15k → 8%SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $9k → 14%U OF THE CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUND: $14k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA: $20k → 14%FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF IOWA: $15k → 15%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $6k → 14%CURATORS OF THE UNIV OF MISSOURI: $38k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 11%FRIENDS OF OBERLIN VILLAGE: $15k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE: $31k → 10%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $12k → 14%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10k → 17%NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $40k → 14%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $14k → 23%AMERICAN SCH OF CLASS STUDIES AT ATHENS: $8k → 11%JAMES MONROE'S HIGHLAND: $24k → 8%LYCOMING COLLEGE: $25k → 12%PENN MUSEUM: $7k → 22%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $10k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO-V: $15k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%PENN MUSEUM: $6k → 22%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10k → 17%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $11k → 14%CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $8k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10k → 17%CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: $7k → 17%AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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Grants abroad, by region — $52k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 2 regions, $20k to organizations and $32k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$44k · 84% · 1 grant · 16 people

Stated purpose: GRANT PRESERVATION/EXCAVATION · HONORARIA · FELLOWSHIP

North America (Canada and Mexico)$8k · 16% · 11 people

Stated purpose: AWARDS · FELLOWSHIP · STIPEND

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$209k · 6 repeat orgs$469k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
29

Total granted

$209k
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+31%

Still filing today

50%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • LC
    LYCOMING COLLEGE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $32k · revenue +11%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
    3× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +77%
  • UP
    UC PRESS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • Northwestern University
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $34k · revenue +31%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE
    one grant, 2021 · $31k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
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William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
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Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
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Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Pa Museums. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%68%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%77%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,526

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $71,537 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURICAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS — $34,125 · OtherCAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $31,774 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $31,200 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTEREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIARECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA — $24,000 · OtherRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAWINTHROP UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $14,800 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE — $14,546 · OtherSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY- CARBONDALE — $13,721 · Other+2 more — $17,750 · Other+2 moreYale University — $40,763 · EducationYale UniversityTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $36,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANI…CARLETON COLLEGE — $34,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGELYCOMING COLLEGE — $32,000 · EducationLYCOMING COLLEGEUniversity of Chicago — $15,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION IN…BAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationBAYLOR UNIVERSITYSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $14,991 · EducationSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $14,950 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIONThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $14,936 · EducationThe Research Foundation for The State Uni…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $14,000 · EducationEmory University — $12,000 · Education+3 more — $15,500 · Education+3 moreINSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF…FRIENDS OF OBERLIN VILLAGE — $15,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF O…UC PRESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUC PRESS FOU…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MU…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,750 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN …Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens — $7,500 · Arts & CultureTrustees of …PA MUSEUMS — $7,000 · Arts & CulturePA MUSEUMSFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $5,500 · Arts & CultureFIELD MUSEUM…Northwestern University — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $30,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $13,975 · Philanthropy
Other$313,453Education$274,140Arts & Culture$83,750Recreation & Sports$40,000International$30,000Philanthropy$13,975

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYale University — $40,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $36,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $34,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYCOMING COLLEGE — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION — $14,991 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION — $14,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $14,936 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $13,975 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $8,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPA MUSEUMS — $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO4.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Archaeological Institute of America funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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