Colorado · Nonprofit
PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP
PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,580 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($44,284). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $319k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $54k
- Net assets
- $64k
What Paleocultural Research Group does
Mission
Paleocultural Research Group (pcrg) conducts scientific research, trains students, and educates the public on the archaeology of the great plains and southern rocky mountains. Pcrg projects apply state-of-the-art field and lab techniques to research on human communities and their relationships to the natural environment, from north america's earliest native american inhabitants to nineteenth-century hispano and american traders and settlers. Pcrg broadly disseminates the findings of its projects to professional and public audiences, raising awareness of plains and rocky mountains archaeology and fostering preservation of the unmatched archaeological resources those regions contain.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided archaeological research, post-field processing and analysis of faunal remains, artifacts and other historic materials discovered at various sites in the great plains and rocky mountains. Prepared technical reports and non-technical summaries that described project findings.
$326,826 spent$265,749 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $326,826.
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.
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 $118k to $66k (−44%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (79% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $10k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 83% 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 PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP’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
PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
83% 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 PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 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. 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
83% of PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP'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. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.
Against its field
PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP's revenue grew 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 science & tech nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$872k
- Department of the Interior$189k
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 PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP
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.
In Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP?
- PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP (Colorado) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,580 to it, the largest being COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION ($44,284). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 83% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $53,580 in grants to PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP?
- COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $44,284 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PALEOCULTURAL RESEARCH GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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