Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,813 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($149,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $462k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $160k
- Net assets
- $134k
What Society of Black Archaeologists does
Mission
The Society of Black Archaeologists (SBA) centers the histories and material culture of global Black and African communities. Through mentorship, education, and a strong network, SBA supports scholars and communities in documenting, preserving, and interpreting heritage.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Librarying as a Community-Rooted Placemaking Practice - to empower communities in Los Angeles and St. Croix to engage in unique practices of librarying and placemaking that champion lifelong learning through documentation and preservation of history
$383,107 spent$440,504 earned by the program96% of program spendingNational Geographic Coral Grant - Exploring the environmental impacts of the slave trade through an environmental study of coral mining in St. Croix
$7,326 spent2% of program spendingNational Geographic Explorers Fund - A discretionary fund to facilitate preliminary research and projects related to African and African diaspora archaeology
$4,035 spent1% of program spendingScholarships
$4,000 spent$4,000 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $398,468.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $90k to $134k (+50%).
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: 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (76% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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.
Board chair
Ayana Flewellen
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $50k → $110k.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS’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
SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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
93% 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 SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 90% — diversifying over time.
“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
93% of SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 169 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 169 social science nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $618k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$618k
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 SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS: 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 SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS?
- SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,813 to it, the largest being NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ($149,313). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $159,813 in grants to SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS?
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $149,313 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF BLACK ARCHAEOLOGISTS 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 3 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