How much does Alaska Humanities Forum give?

Alaska Humanities Forum reported 8 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $95,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Alaska Humanities Forum fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Education (5%).

Who are Alaska Humanities Forum's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Artchange ($49k), Ktoo Public Media ($39k), Anchorage Museum Association ($33k).

Does Alaska Humanities Forum fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Alaska Humanities Forum?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation, Museums Alaska Inc.

Where is Alaska Humanities Forum based?

Alaska Humanities Forum is based in AK.

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Alaska · Public charity

Alaska Humanities Forum

The ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM connects alaskans through stories, ideas, and experiences that positively change lives and strengthen communities.

$95k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 8
Itemized grants FY2024: 5
Organizations funded FY2023: 60%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $80k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 70; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Alaska Humanities Forum funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	8	$80k	63%
FY2023	5	$50k	60%
FY2022	7	$76k	43%
FY2021	48	$459k	13%
FY2020	70	$441k	89%
FY2019	6	$63k	83%
FY2018	7	$71k	71%
FY2017	7	$65k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$785kPublic Safety & Disaster$182kEducation$73kYouth Development$62kEnvironment$55kHuman Services$39kPhilanthropy$29kHealth$27kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Artchange	$48,600	4	85%
Ktoo Public Media	$39,250	3	1%
Anchorage Museum Association	$33,247	4	0%
Spirit of Youth	$30,685	3	3%
Keys to Life	$30,000	3	4%
Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center	$29,250	2	38%
University of Alaska	$27,872	3	n/a
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council	$27,281	3	1%
Out North	$25,700	3	15%
Museum of the Aleutians	$24,954	3	3%

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All grantees of Alaska Humanities Forum by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Artchange	$48,600	4	85%
Ktoo Public Media	$39,250	3	1%
Anchorage Museum Association	$33,247	4	0%
Spirit of Youth	$30,685	3	3%
Keys to Life	$30,000	3	4%
Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center	$29,250	2	38%
University of Alaska	$27,872	3	n/a
Juneau Arts & Humanities Council	$27,281	3	1%
Out North	$25,700	3	15%
Museum of the Aleutians	$24,954	3	3%
See Stories	$24,250	3	5%
Southwest Alaska Arts Group	$23,750	3	7%
Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center Inc	$21,250	2	5%
Bunnell Street Arts Center	$21,250	2	3%
First Alaskans Institute	$21,250	2	1%
Bethel Broadcasting Inc	$21,250	2	1%
Kawerak Inc	$21,250	2	0%
City & Borough of Juneau	$18,000	2	n/a
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc	$16,250	2	0%
North American Traditional Indian Values Enrichment Program Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
The Language Conservancy Inc	$15,000	1	1%
Kuac Friends Group	$14,250	2	1%
Best Beginnings	$14,250	2	1%
Identity Inc	$14,250	2	2%
Talkeetna Historical Society Inc	$14,250	2	5%
Valdez Museum & Historical Archive Association Inc	$14,250	2	1%
Affinity Films Inc	$14,250	2	9%
Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies	$14,250	2	1%
Alaska World Affairs Council	$14,250	2	3%
Homer Society of Natural History	$14,250	2	2%
Athabascan Fiddlers Association	$14,250	2	1%
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation	$14,250	2	0%
Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association	$14,250	2	2%
Outer Coast	$14,250	2	1%
Homer Council on the Arts	$14,250	2	7%
Sealaska Heritage Institute	$14,250	2	0%
Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment	$14,250	2	10%
Fairbanks Childrens Museum	$14,250	2	2%
Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers Charity Corporation	$14,250	2	2%
Sitka Historical Society	$14,250	2	5%
Kodiak Historical Society	$14,250	2	2%
Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center	$14,250	2	1%
Denali Arts Council Inc	$14,250	2	9%
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation	$14,250	2	1%
Story Works Alaska	$14,250	2	7%
Kodiak Maritime Museum	$13,750	2	9%
Museum of Ak Transportation & Industry Inc	$13,750	2	n/a
Interior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation	$13,750	2	19%
Alaska Veterans Museum	$13,750	2	12%
Clausen Memorial Museum	$13,750	2	8%
Bristol Bay Historical Society Inc	$13,750	2	5%
Osborn Creative LLC	$11,900	1	n/a
Native Village of Kanatak	$10,000	1	n/a
Aakw Kwaan Coalition Council	$10,000	1	n/a
Native Village of Shaktoolik	$10,000	1	n/a
Chugach Regional Resources Commission	$10,000	1	0%
Unalaska Community Broadcasting	$10,000	1	2%
Alaska Public Media Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Ketchikan Wellness Coalition	$10,000	1	1%
Island Institute	$10,000	1	12%
Data for Indigenous Justice	$10,000	1	4%
Kartemquin Educational Films	$10,000	1	n/a
Alaska Children's Trust	$10,000	1	0%
Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust	$10,000	1	n/a
The Folk School	$8,000	1	3%
Denali Education Center	$8,000	1	1%
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska	$7,900	1	1%
Qizhjeh Heritage Institute	$7,500	1	3%
Anchorage International Film Festival	$7,500	1	20%
Alaska Literacy Program Inc	$7,500	1	1%
Alaska Black Caucus	$7,500	1	1%
Alaska Historical Society	$7,500	1	10%
Terminal Radio Inc	$6,250	1	2%
Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center	$6,250	1	5%
Wrangell Mountains Center	$6,250	1	8%
Denakkanaaga Inc	$6,250	1	1%
Alaska Geographic Association	$6,250	1	0%
The Friends of the Juneau Public Libraries	$6,250	1	4%
Ketchikan Area Arts & Humanities Council	$6,250	1	2%
YWCA Alaska	$6,250	1	1%
Wrangell Cooperative Association	$6,250	1	n/a
Museums Alaska Inc	$6,250	1	3%
Kake Tribal Heritage Foundation	$6,250	1	8%
Friends of the Homer Public Library Inc	$6,250	1	9%
Commonwealth North Inc	$6,250	1	3%
Friends of the University of Alaska Museum of the North	$6,250	1	n/a
The Arete Project	$6,250	1	3%
Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum	$6,250	1	n/a
Veterans for Peace Inc	$6,250	1	n/a
Tanana Chiefs Conference	$6,250	1	0%
Perseverance Theatre Incorporated	$6,250	1	1%
Alaska Childrens Institute for the Performing Arts Inc	$6,250	1	2%
Anchorage Community Theater Inc	$6,250	1	4%
Juneau Alaska Music Matters	$6,250	1	n/a
Cyrano's Theatre Company	$6,250	1	2%
Alaska Arts Southeast Inc	$6,000	1	0%

Alaska Humanities Forum supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 81.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rasmuson FoundationAK127.4× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Museums Alaska Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The CIRI Foundation · Frances & David Rose Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Alaska Children's Trust · The Usibelli Foundation · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Alaska Humanities Forum

How much does Alaska Humanities Forum give?: Alaska Humanities Forum reported 8 itemized grants totaling $80,000, out of $95,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alaska Humanities Forum fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%), Education (5%).
Who are Alaska Humanities Forum's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Artchange ($49k), Ktoo Public Media ($39k), Anchorage Museum Association ($33k).
Does Alaska Humanities Forum fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alaska Humanities Forum?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation, Museums Alaska Inc.
Where is Alaska Humanities Forum based?: Alaska Humanities Forum is based in AK.