North Carolina · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION
ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,917 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $286k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Alliance for Heritage Conservation does
Mission
Supports progressive collaborations and grassroots efforts to protect sites of cultural heritage to build communities' capacity for local heritage management, and educate a broad public about the value of cultural and archaeological heritage conservation see accomplishment details in 2024- part iii
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
PACOY stands for: The Proyecto Arqueolgico Colaborativo del Oriente de Yucatn (PACOY), or the Eastern Yucatan Collaborative Archaeological Project. This project has been funded by private donors and institutions, including the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA), the National Geographic Society, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. In 2023 and previous years, this project carried out archaeological research with the participation and collaboration of the local Maya community of Tahcabo in Yucatan, Mexico. As part of this project, InHerit designed educational workshops and a community museum in Mexico. Since 2021, US partners have visited Tahcabo to continue to update the community museum, conduct oral histories and interviews with Tahcabo residents, and provide presentations about archaeological and ethnographic research results. We also continue to host anniversary celebrations for the museum each August 23, including in August of 2025. Research durin
Amplifying Native Voices in North Carolina History is an InHerit project funded by the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and the North Carolina Humanities Council. The project began in 2020 and focuses on developing educational resources and workshops for 6-12th-grade teachers with the Museum of the Southeast American Indian in Pembroke, NC at UNC-Pembroke. Through this project, we are creating and donating free curriculum resources for middle schools and high schools about the history of Indigenous cultures in the state, the Lumbee tribe, and the science of archaeology. 2025 activities included applying for funding, coordinating & recruiting previous project participants for an evaluation of the project, to take place in January 2026, and begin planning for a fourth Teacher Institute, which was delayed following a lack of funding for the year. This project is currently being transitioned over to our partners at The Museum of the Southeast American Indian, so preparations and training took
The Deep History of Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Practices at Tahcabo, Yucatn is an InHerit and PACOY project funded by the National Geographic Society, which began in 2022. The research identifies past and present cultivation practices that optimize resilience and productivity amid climate, demographic, and political change. Project methods included interviews with current farmers, plant surveys, airborne laser imagery for the study of canopy height and archaeological features, ground-based settlement survey, and the study of paleoenvironmental data from sinkholes (rejolladas and a cenote), which have served as important agricultural features. In 2022, this project kicked off with a summer-long field season including archaeological excavation and interviews of Tahcabo residents. Project activities including archaeological survey continued in 2023. These activities included working with students from the Universidad de Oriente de Yucatan for ground survey to verify LIDAR
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $64k to $42k (−35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Patricia Mcanany
Executive director
Board chair
Khristin Montes
Chair of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $50k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
30% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 67% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,859 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,859 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION?
- ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $285,917 to it, the largest being Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $285,917 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION?
- Z SMITH REYNOLDS FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR HERITAGE CONSERVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing