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Archaeological Networks Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$397kArts & Culture$277kInternational$248kYouth Development$99kHealth$48kScience & Tech$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $157k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILMOUR ACADEMY$57,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$50,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$48,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,554
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$10,000
RATTNER SCHOOL$8,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $4k → 13%UNRWA USA: $102k → 14%RESCUE VILLAGE: $50k → 6%FRIENDS OF FT LAURENS FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $50k → 14%OHIO STATE REFORMATORY: $21k → 15%CLEVELAND ZOO: $30k → 17%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 19%WESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $3k → 13%UNRWA USA: $75k → 14%RESCUE VILLAGE: $30k → 6%MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $25k → 14%CLEVELAND ZOO: $25k → 17%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%UNRWA USA: $42k → 14%RESCUE VILLAGE: $10k → 6%CLEVELAND ZOO: $23k → 17%YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 19%UNRWA USA: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $38k → 17%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $36k → 17%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CTR: $14k → 17%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%GREAT LAKES SCIENCE CTR: $10k → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $57k → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $50k → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $40k → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $4k → 17%RATTNER SCHOOL: $21k → 17%RATTNER SCHOOL: $20k → 17%RATTNER SCHOOL: $10k → 17%RATTNER SCHOOL: $8k → 17%RATTNER SCHOOL: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $50k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $48k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $40k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $35k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE: $31k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $25k → 17%CASE WESTERN RESERVE: $25k → 17%CASE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERIN: $23k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $15k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $12k → 17%CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $9k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$1.2M
$26k

Still filing today

53%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalOther
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

  • UU
    UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $248k · revenue +626%
  • CM
    CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +19%
  • MU
    MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CS
    CASE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERIN
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

1
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
5
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
6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
Wesleyan University

Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…

Education
10
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
11
The Trustees of Grinnell College

To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…

Education
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Museum of Natural History; the most unlike its peers is The Ratner School. 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

8 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. 8 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GILMOUR ACADEMY INC: $154,077 · OtherGILMOUR ACADEMY INCIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCASE WESTERN RESERVE: $81,260 · OtherCASE WESTERN RESERVEIndividual grant recipient: $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $48,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONGREAT LAKES SCIENCE CTR: $23,591 · OtherCASE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERIN: $23,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,554 · Other+3 more: $28,569 · OtherCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $172,570 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ARTCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $86,562 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NAT…+1 more: $7,588 · Arts & CultureUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $248,472 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL CO…UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $99,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITYTHE RATNER SCHOOL: $64,000 · EducationTHE RATNER SCHOOL+1 more: $7,077 · Education
Other$546,551Arts & Culture$266,720International$248,472Education$245,077

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC: $248,472 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART: $172,570 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $99,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $86,562 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RATNER SCHOOL: $64,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,588 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER COLLEGE: $7,077 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE RATNER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 19 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-PF 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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