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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $48,125, the rows itemized in this filing. The $299,126 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $251,001 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its 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

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

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EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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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10
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
11
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Chicago; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
23/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION IN…University of Chicago: $15,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoBAYLOR 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…CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MU…UC PRESS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureUC PRESS FOU…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $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 budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUC PRESS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Archaeological Institute of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Archaeological Institute of America. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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