How much did ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$529kEducation$115kEmployment$49kYouth Development$47kEnvironment$45kPhilanthropy$44kRecreation & Sports$24kCommunity Improvement$21kHuman Services$20kOther$374k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

youthmedia

2020

covid relief

2021

covid reliefmediajuneau

2022

covid relief

2023

artistsalaskanfilmstoryleadseeinclusive

2024

ketchikanvillagenativechugachcommissioncultural

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

KETCHIKAN WELLNESS COALITION$10,000
KOKHANOK VILLAGE COUNCIL$10,000
CHUGACH REGIONAL RESOURCES$10,000
KEYS TO LIFE$10,000
DATA FOR INDIGENOUS JUSTICE$10,000
OUT NORTH$10,000
KTOO PUBLIC MEDIA$10,000
NATIVE VILLAGE OF SHAKTOOLIK$10,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$901k · 49 repeat orgs$367k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$901k

$317k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+29%

Still filing today

88%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

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ARTCHANGE INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $49k · revenue +7% · 85% of their budget
SO
SPIRIT OF YOUTH
3× · 2019–2021 · $31k · revenue +18%
JA
JUNEAU ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL
3× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +95%

Funded once

JC
JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +117%
NA
NORTH AMERICAN TRADITIONAL INDIAN
one grant, 2022 · $15k
TL
THE LANGUAGE CONSERVANCYgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +402%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Anchorage Museum Foundation

To provide support to the anchorage musuem association for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.

Arts & Culture

Alaska Historical Publication Association

Education

Korean Cultural Center Alaska

The Korean Cultural Association of Alaska KCCA promotes sharing the cultural heritage of Korean and encouraging cross-cultural understanding through exchanging diverse cultural values to empower all people, build a bridge, and celebrate…

Arts & Culture

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska

The Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska promotes the conservation and wise use of Alaskas natural resources through broad-based education initiatives designed to provide Alaskans the skills and knowledge to enjoy the outdoors in a safe,…

Environment

Alaska Zoo

Conservation, education, research, and community enrichment of arctic, sub-arctic, and like-climate animals.

Animals

Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation

To honor mining individuals and inform the public of historical important moments in mining

Arts & Culture

Fairbanks Native Association

To promote spirituality, cultural identity, self-reliance, physical and mental health, by improving the quality of life for of our community through professional quality services.

Health

Anchorage Concert Association Inc

Our mission is to inspire and enhance the community through the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative

Environment

Cook Inlet Tribal Council

Citc's (cook inlet tribal council) mission is to work in partnership with alaska native/american indian individuals to connect them to opportunities that fulfill their potential through education and training, child and family services,…

Human Services

Helping Alaska

Mobilize the church to transform lives and communities in the name of christ. local churches come together as a network. it is a cooperative partnership that enables churches to make a lasting impact to help individuals, families, and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museums Alaska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valdez Museum & Historical Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/94

the rest of the field

397/4,232

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/82

Grantees still filing

54/82

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$528,978Other$439,372Education$115,285Employment$49,250Youth Development$46,500Environment$44,750Philanthropy$44,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rasmuson FoundationAK120.4× affinity63 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 · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · The CIRI Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · Valley Hospital Association Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ARTCHANGE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271342836 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ARTCHANGE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 85% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alaska Humanities Forum?

Find your warmest path to Alaska Humanities Forum through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alaska Humanities Forum?

More from the funding graph

ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

82 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alaska Humanities Forum?

More from the funding graph