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PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$15k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$31
Net assets
$13k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society does

Mission

Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society is a 501c3 charitable organization that promotes public interest, sponsors research, and awards scholarships for studies in Archaeology.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Wrote book, Reawakening Ancient Salish Sea Basketry, Fifty Years of Basketry Studies in Culture and Science, by Ed Carriere, Suquamish Elder and Master Basketmaker and Dr. Dale Croes, Wet-site Archaeologist, WSU.

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    50% of program spending
  2. Helped sponsor Traditional Foods Forum in Portland, Oregon, as part of Society for Applied Anthropology 2025 annual meeting, focusing on Indigenous foods and Native American food sovereignty.

    $5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants
    50% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,000.

02The 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($23k) Expenses 100 ($5k) Net assets 100 ($22k)2018 Revenue 23 ($5k) Expenses 434 ($24k) Net assets 15 ($3k)2019 Revenue 38 ($9k) Expenses 137 ($8k) Net assets 21 ($5k)2020 Revenue 26 ($6k) Expenses 115 ($6k) Net assets 19 ($4k)2021 Revenue 36 ($8k) Expenses 159 ($9k) Net assets 17 ($4k)2022 Revenue 86 ($20k) Expenses 303 ($17k) Net assets 32 ($7k)2023 Revenue 46 ($11k) Expenses 201 ($11k) Net assets 30 ($7k)2024 Revenue 65 ($15k) Expenses 149 ($8k) Net assets 61 ($13k)
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Revenue (65)Expenses (149)Net assets (61)

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 $22k to $4k (−84%).

$22k
$4k
$5k
$4k
$4k
$7k
$7k
$14k
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’17
−$19k
’18
$1k
’19
−$319
’20
−$497
’21
$3k
’22
−$358
’23
$7k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY’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.

Where its funders are

100% of PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

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05Profile & governance

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

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 PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PACIFIC NORTHWEST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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