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ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,146,191 to it, the largest being MACDONALD CENTER FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES ($510,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6.1M
Revenue FY2025
40
Funders on record
$2.1M
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
29/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 19 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,883 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($6.1M) Expenses 100 ($6.3M) Net assets 100 ($9.5M)2018 Revenue 102 ($6.2M) Expenses 99 ($6.2M) Net assets 104 ($9.9M)2019 Revenue 102 ($6.2M) Expenses 98 ($6.1M) Net assets 110 ($10M)2020 Revenue 157 ($9.5M) Expenses 102 ($6.4M) Net assets 119 ($11M)2021 Revenue 123 ($7.4M) Expenses 106 ($6.6M) Net assets 159 ($15M)2022 Revenue 134 ($8.1M) Expenses 108 ($6.7M) Net assets 139 ($13M)2023 Revenue 119 ($7.2M) Expenses 106 ($6.6M) Net assets 142 ($13M)2024 Revenue 106 ($6.5M) Expenses 100 ($6.2M) Net assets 156 ($15M)2025 Revenue 101 ($6.1M) Expenses 97 ($6.1M) Net assets 166 ($16M)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (97)Net assets (166)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2021 9% · 2022 4% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

21% of ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,374 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$182k
17
$7k
18
$92k
19
$3.1M
20
$825k
21
$1.4M
22
$588k
23
$222k
24
$29k
25
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $49k → $302k.

14 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)40% 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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 funders by total. 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

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

40% 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 ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.

24%
largest funder
54%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 65% · 2019 32% · 2020 18% · 2021 39% · 2022 33% · 2023 33%growing more concentrated.

“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

44% of ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 11 states in all.

IL
MI
NY
NV
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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19
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23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $856k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 40 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $742k on record — $667k federal, $75k state.

Federal$667k
grants $667kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$652k
  • Department of the Interior$15k
State$75k
Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$75k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 16%Fundraising 7%

Governance

38
board members
97%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

NY
MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA?
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA (Massachusetts) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,146,191 to it, the largest being MACDONALD CENTER FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES ($510,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA have?
IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $2,146,191 in grants to ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA?
MACDONALD CENTER FOR THE ARTS & HUMANITIES is the largest funder on record, with $510,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA 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.

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 40funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing