The Antiquities Coalition

The Antiquities Coalition, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, DC, operates as a prime recipient of federal grants focused on cultural property protection, antiquities trafficking prevention, and bilateral cultural property agreement development — all funded by the Department of State's regional bureaus. The organization does not hold federal contracts or IDVs and does not subcontract; all fourteen awards in the source are prime grants or a single purchase order direct from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

The Antiquities Coalition's customer base concentrates within the State Department's geographic and cultural affairs bureaus. Six awards (43% of the portfolio) flow from the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, three awards from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (which also carries the only quantified potential value, $178 thousand, plus a $177,602 purchase order awarded September 21, 2026), and the remainder split across the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs — covering 93% of awards across six distinct funding agencies. The organization works as a 100% prime recipient; no subcontract footprint appears in the source.

Representative grant work includes a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs (awarded October 15, 2024, completed February 27, 2025) to develop a request for a bilateral cultural property agreement between the United States and three other countries in South and Central Asia; a project grant from the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs (awarded November 1, 2023, running through November 1, 2026) to develop a cultural property agreement request with multiple countries in that region in consultation with the State Department; and a project grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (awarded October 1, 2022, completed October 31, 2023) to conduct phase two of a Cultural Property Agreement Implementation program and create a digitization lab at Bardo Museum. Law enforcement training to prevent antiquities trafficking and workshops for the cultural sector targeting legal framework strengthening appear across multiple awards, including a concluded project in Bahrain (Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, October 1, 2022 through May 30, 2024) and an ongoing ECA-funded initiative announced September 30, 2025. Activity has declined notably — three awards in 2022, one or fewer annually since — with three awards (combined potential value $178 thousand) facing completion within the next twenty-four months and therefore subject to recompete.