Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc
Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,094 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,260,342). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $706k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.4M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc does
Mission
Using archeology and training to explore Egypt's past and empower young Egyptian archeologists.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Giza and Cairo Center Project: The Cairo Center has been officially named The Mark Lehner Center. Located in Giza, Egypt, the Lehner Center is a compound of buildings that includes a villa containing the archives of over 25 years of field expeditions in Giza, Mit Rahina, and Luxor. It also houses a computer lab, lecture hall/library, laundry facilities, kitchen and staff quarters. The Lehner Center is meant to be the home of an archeological community that brings together archologists from Egypt and around the world in a mutually beneficial exchange of values and ideas.
$313,746 spentof which $111,393 as grants74% of program spendingPublication/Website: AERA's publications program is responsible for disseminating the results of AERA's fieldwork to both a broad general audience, as well as, the scholarly community. Publications produces a semiannual newsletter called Aeragram and AERA's annual report outlining it's accomplishments in the preceding fiscal year. In addition, Publications prepares manuscripts for three series of scholarly monographs, as well as, other miscellaneous books covering results and analysis of AERA's field work.
$67,060 spent16% of program spendingAERA's fieldwork projects in previous years have included the iconic Great Pyramids and Sphinx, as well as discovering ancient city extension and a new Nile port. The AERA team has also created a high precision surveyed map of both the natural and cultural features of the entire Giza Plateau. We continue to use and build upon this data to this day. In addition to survey, we now use ground penetrating radar, laser scanning, and drones to document the major monuments on the Giza plateau and other sites around Egypt.
$45,222 spent11% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $426,028.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $1.8M (−8%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 6% · 2022 10% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Dr Mark Lehner
Executive Director
Board chair
Matthew McCauley
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $75k → $485k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc’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
Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% 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 Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 67% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $802k that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 6 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
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Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc: 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 Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc?
- Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,406,094 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($1,260,342). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,406,094 in grants to Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,260,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ancient Egypt Research Associates Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13 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