North Carolina · Nonprofit
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,141 to it, the largest being THE PACKARD HUMANITIES INSTITUTE ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $101k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What American Society of Papyrologists does
Mission
The asp was founded in 1961 to further the study of ancient greek and latin papyri and of the materials contained in them. Since that time, the society has embraced papyrological research in other languages as well; its journal currently supports publications in demotic egyptian, coptic, and arabic, with the ambition to broaden coverage to include hieratic egyptian and aramaic in the future. The society supports and encourages research in the field, the teaching of the discipline, and international cooperation by scholars. The asp publishes the bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (basp), the only north american journal in the field of papyrology. It publishes a monograph series, american studies in papyrology, and occasional supplements to basp. It also sponsors summer institutes in papyrology, to train future generations of papyrologists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Publication and distribution of the society's annual journal (bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists) and monograph series (american studies in papyrology), promotion and support of papyrological studies in north america including support for the summer institute in papyrology and for the triennial north american papyrological seminar.
$14,351 spentof which $7,000 as grants$-721 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,351.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $1.3M to $1.5M (+19%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $72 → $30k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS’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
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS
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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
19%
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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS: 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 AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS?
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,141 to it, the largest being THE PACKARD HUMANITIES INSTITUTE ($30,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $30,141 in grants to AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS?
- THE PACKARD HUMANITIES INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PAPYROLOGISTS 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 2 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