Arizona · Nonprofit
VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER
VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,520,779 to it, the largest being PAUL DYCK FOUNDATION RESEARCH INST OF AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE ($839,140). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Yavapai Community Hospital Association Dba Yavapai Regional Medical Centerlocalportfolio match
- Health First Foundation-Northern Arizonalocalportfolio match
- United Way of Yavapai County Inclocal
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 3% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $161k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER’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
VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 79% · 2021 78% · 2022 50% · 2023 51% — 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
58% of VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $75k 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.
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.
- Yavapai Community Hospital Association Dba Yavapai Regional Medical Centerlocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 23 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Health First Foundation-Northern Arizonalocalportfolio matchAZ · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Yavapai County InclocalAZ · funds 33 organizations near you
- Southwest Foundation for Education & Historical Preservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arizona Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lohse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Absolon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colorado Humanitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Margaret E Mooney Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Henry Dahlberg Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flinn Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tj Guarriello Jr Family 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.
Government funding VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $306k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$246k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$60k
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 VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER
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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER: 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 VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER?
- VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER (Arizona) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,520,779 to it, the largest being PAUL DYCK FOUNDATION RESEARCH INST OF AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE ($839,140). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,520,779 in grants to VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER?
- PAUL DYCK FOUNDATION RESEARCH INST OF AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURE is the largest funder on record, with $839,140 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERDE VALLEY ARCHAEOLOGY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing