The Leon Levy Foundation, founded in 2004, is a private, not-for-profit foundation created from the Estate of Leon Levy. The Foundation has begun its work of continuing Leon Levy's philanthropic legacy by providing support for programs begun by Leon Levy and his wife, Shelby White, including the continuation of generous funding for the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon since its inception in 1985.

The Harvard Semitic Museum is one of the Harvard University Museums, housing collections of archaeological materials from the Ancient Near East. The Semitic Museum sponsors archaeological field research into the complex societies of the Near East, with special emphasis on those ancient cultures related to the world of the Bible. In addition, the Museum, through its Harvard Semitic Museum publications: Semitic Series, Semitic Monographs, and Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant, publishes archaeological, historical, philological, and cultural studies of the Near East, many of which present the research of the department faculty and their students.

Boston College, a Jesuit university located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, is consistently ranked as a top-tier university with a commitment to academic excellence. The Boston College Department of Theology faculty have long offered important leadership to the Expedition, and several have directed different aspects of the field program.

Established in 1860 as a co-ed institution, Wheaton College is a private, residential, and interdenominational Christian liberal arts college, where the pursuit of faith and learning is taken seriously. Wheaton College has offered a program in Biblical Archaeology for 60 years, and the Wheaton Archaeology Museum continues to maintain a teaching collection of more than twenty thousand artifacts from the Ancient Near East.