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ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE

ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,621 to it, the largest being LANE ARTS COUNCIL ($24,630). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$173k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$58k
Net assets
$35k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Archaeological Legacy Institute does

Mission

The mission of ALI is to develop ways to make archaeology more effective both in gathering important information about past human lifeways and in delivering that information to the public and the profession. A fundamental postulate is that archaeology has important messages to deliver accurately and completely to people worldwide about our origins and development as a species and that among these messages are those about mistakes we have made in the past and must not make in the future. In essence, ALI is devoted to archaeological research and its contributions to science and to humanity. In the furtherance of this mission, ALI, its associates, and its employees adhere to the Principles of Archaeological Ethics promulgated by the Society for American Archaeology.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. The Archaeology Channel website (archaeologychannel.org) - 2024 traffic around 160,000 pageviews

    $70,955 spent$40,575 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  2. The Archaeology Channel International Film Festival - about 400 attendees in 2024

    $13,228 spent$5,693 earned by the program
    7% of program spending
  3. The Archaeology Channel Tours Program - 16 participants in 2024

    $71,635 spent$108,059 earned by the program
    38% of program spending
  4. Heritage Broadcasting Service -780 subscriber transactions during 2024 and 381 film titles in the catalogue at the end of 2022.

    $32,200 spent$18,558 earned by the program
    17% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $188,018.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($168k) Expenses 100 ($170k) Net assets 100 ($15k)2022 Revenue 130 ($218k) Expenses 117 ($199k) Net assets 362 ($55k)2023 Revenue 176 ($295k) Expenses 177 ($300k) Net assets 325 ($50k)2024 Revenue 103 ($173k) Expenses 111 ($188k) Net assets 227 ($35k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (103)Expenses (111)Net assets (227)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $36k to $55k (+52%).

$36k
$55k
$50k
$35k
2021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

23% of ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’21
$19k
’22
−$6k
’23
−$15k
’24
2.2
months of
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.

202220232024
Listed555
Joined·+0+0
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $251.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 LEGACY INSTITUTE’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

ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

72% 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 LEGACY INSTITUTE.

43%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 77% · 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

56% of ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE's grant income comes from Oregon funders.

OR
KS
FL

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

’17
’21
’22
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $58k to it.

Operating margin−9% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.2mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

93%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE?
ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $57,621 to it, the largest being LANE ARTS COUNCIL ($24,630). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $57,621 in grants to ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE?
LANE ARTS COUNCIL is the largest funder on record, with $24,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 6 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