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ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $784,659 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($475,097). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$322k
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$785k
Net assets
$76k
7/10 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Archaeology in the Community does

Mission

To promote and facilitate the study and public understanding of archaeological heritage through informal educational programs, professional development, and community events.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Greenwood - Partnership to design an online curriculum for high school students in compliance with common core standards that infuse archaeology and geography into the history of Greenwood and the story of Black heritage in Oklahoma.

    $249,273 spent$190,000 earned by the program
    90% of program spending
  2. Conference on Public Archaeology - Meeting hosted to provide a dedicated space for public-minded archaeologists and cultural heritage practitioners to share their experiences and expertise; hosted a series of workshops, panels, round-tables, and special events geared toward addressing pressing issues in the discipline

    $19,063 spent
    7% of program spending
  3. Day of Archaeology Festival - Day dedicated to engaging the public with archaeology and inform the community about local archaeology resources

    $1,997 spent
    1% of program spending
  4. Africatown - To develop K-12 lesson plans and curriculum for teachers and students exploring archaeological methods using the history of Clotilda and Africatown as case studies

    $1,574 spent
    1% of program spending
  5. Additional program costs (1 of 2)

    $1,463 spent
    1% of program spending
  6. Additional program costs (2 of 2)

    $1,462 spent
    1% of program spending
  7. Other program costs

    $1,317 spent
    0% of program spending
  8. After school program

    $1,194 spent
    0% of program spending
  9. T-shirts

    $182 spent
    0% of program spending
  10. ASL Workshop - workshop designed for students who have ASL as their first form on communication

  11. Archaeological Club - Archaeologists provide hands on experience with various archaeological techniques and provide information education workshops

  12. Teacher Training Project

  13. St. Croix Field School - Training and historical research projects for Crucian youth in scuba diving, maritime, and terrestrial archaeological methodologies

The 13 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,525.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($85k) Expenses 100 ($45k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2021 Revenue 58 ($50k) Expenses 73 ($33k) Net assets 143 ($57k)2022 Revenue 101 ($86k) Expenses 142 ($64k) Net assets 199 ($80k)2023 Revenue 187 ($159k) Expenses 438 ($197k) Net assets 132 ($53k)2024 Revenue 299 ($254k) Expenses 866 ($389k) Net assets 189 ($76k)2025 Revenue 379 ($322k) Expenses 718 ($322k) Net assets 188 ($76k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (379)Expenses (718)Net assets (188)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 2023 to 2024, from $210k to $76k (−64%).

$40k
$57k
$80k
$210k
$76k
$76k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$40k
’20
$17k
’21
$23k
’22
−$38k
’23
−$134k
’24
−$206
’25
2.8
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.

Chief executive

Alexandra Jones

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202320242025
Listed277
Joined··+0
No longer listed··0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $234k.

3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY’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

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

80% 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 ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY.

61%
largest funder
79%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 100% · 2019 49% · 2020 49% · 2021 59% · 2022 50% · 2023 94% — 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

60% of ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

85% of ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

WI
VA
DC
AL

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

’17
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $111k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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

ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve2.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Government funding ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $101k on record.

Federal$101k
grants $0contracts $101k
Top agencies
  • Smithsonian Institution$101k

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 ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY?
ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $784,659 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($475,097). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $784,659 in grants to ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY?
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $475,097 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE COMMUNITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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