California · Nonprofit
ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION
ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,577,587 to it, the largest being ACADEMY FOUNDATION ($177,528,890). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,681 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- California Restaurant Foundation Inclocal
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio match
- The Rose Hills Foundationlocal
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.
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.
96% of ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $22M → $18M.
From the IRS filings of ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION 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: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
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.
- California Restaurant Foundation InclocalCA · funds 169 organizations near you
- National Film Preservation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rose Hills FoundationlocalCA · funds 476 organizations near you
- Dr Lee Maccormick Edwards Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel H Kress Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Morf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chris and Francesca Beale Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Elizabeth and Stanley D Scott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sakana Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shelter Partnership InclocalCA · funds 335 organizations near you
- The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Ampas · exempt
- Academy Foundation · exempt
- Academy Museum Foundation · exempt
- Vine Street Archive Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION: 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.
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 ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION?
- ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,577,587 to it, the largest being ACADEMY FOUNDATION ($177,528,890). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $177,577,587 in grants to ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION?
- ACADEMY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $177,528,890 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCHIVAL FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing