How much does Museums Alaska Inc give?

Museums Alaska Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $212,329, out of $250,320 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Museums Alaska Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Community Improvement (3%), Environment (3%).

Who are Museums Alaska Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation ($289k), Sealaska Heritage Institute ($203k), Anchorage Museum Association ($164k).

Does Museums Alaska Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Museums Alaska Inc?

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

Where is Museums Alaska Inc based?

Museums Alaska Inc is based in AK.

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Alaska · Public charity

Museums Alaska Inc

Museums alaska supports museums and cultural centers in alaska and enhances public understanding of their value.

$250k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 11
Itemized grants FY2025: 20
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $212k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,906
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 20; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $176k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Museums Alaska Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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
FY2025still arriving	11	$212k	27%
FY2024	20	$395k	10%
FY2023	17	$324k	24%
FY2022	19	$387k	58%
FY2021	19	$324k	16%
FY2020	8	$97k	13%
FY2019	16	$347k	31%
FY2018	12	$201k	67%

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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$2.1MCommunity Improvement$74kEnvironment$59kRecreation & Sports$38kPublic Benefit$30kCrime & Legal$20kEducation$15kHealth$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation	$288,789	9	3%
Sealaska Heritage Institute	$202,805	8	0%
Anchorage Museum Association	$163,884	6	1%
City of Ketchikan	$153,251	6	n/a
Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center Inc	$141,894	6	16%
University of Alaska	$129,790	6	n/a
State Of Alaska	$112,243	4	n/a
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc	$86,300	3	0%
Kodiak Historical Society	$79,199	4	13%
Alaska Aviation Museum	$70,336	4	4%

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All grantees of Museums Alaska Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation	$288,789	9	3%
Sealaska Heritage Institute	$202,805	8	0%
Anchorage Museum Association	$163,884	6	1%
City of Ketchikan	$153,251	6	n/a
Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center Inc	$141,894	6	16%
University of Alaska	$129,790	6	n/a
State Of Alaska	$112,243	4	n/a
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc	$86,300	3	0%
Kodiak Historical Society	$79,199	4	13%
Alaska Aviation Museum	$70,336	4	4%
City & Borough of Juneau	$58,452	4	n/a
Museum of the Aleutians	$57,488	4	3%
Homer Society of Natural History	$55,274	4	5%
Palmer Museum of History and Art	$51,925	3	7%
Friends of the Alaska State Library	$51,094	3	23%
Alaska Museum of Science and Nature	$50,000	2	40%
Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association Inc	$49,920	2	0%
Native Village of Eyak	$48,358	4	n/a
Eagle Historical Society of Alaska	$39,931	2	64%
Cape Fox Cultural Foundation	$36,000	2	28%
Sitka Sound Science Center Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Bristol Bay Historical Society Inc	$34,920	2	9%
Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center	$30,200	2	2%
Claudia Kelsey Doll Museum Tr Dba Aunt Claudias Dolls a Museum	$28,431	2	n/a
Fairbanks Childrens Museum	$28,402	2	3%
Sitka Historical Society	$27,257	2	10%
Alaska Botanical Garden Inc	$26,510	2	1%
City of Wasilla	$26,510	2	n/a
Talkeetna Historical Society Inc	$25,645	3	9%
Interior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation	$25,110	3	17%
First Alaskans Institute	$24,119	1	1%
Hammer Museum Inc	$20,734	2	12%
Chugach Museum	$20,298	1	n/a
Organized Village of Kake	$20,000	1	n/a
Fraternal Order of Alaska State Troopers Charity Corporation	$20,000	1	4%
Valdez Museum & Historical Archive Association Inc	$19,791	3	1%
Mat-Su Trails & Parks Foundation	$19,040	1	1%
City of Nome	$15,800	2	n/a
Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center	$15,000	2	4%
Resurrection Bay Historical Society Inc	$13,370	2	n/a
Alaska Jewish Historical Museum & Cultural Center	$12,931	2	12%
American Bald Eagle Foundation Haines Chapter Inc	$12,684	1	4%
Clausen Memorial Museum	$12,394	1	9%
Alaska Childrens Museum	$12,000	1	n/a
Friends of Jensen-Olson Arboretum	$11,500	1	n/a
Cordova Historical Society	$10,262	2	8%
City and Borough of Wrangell	$9,212	1	n/a
Alaska Association for Historic Pre	$8,870	1	19%
Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum	$8,404	1	12%
Kodiak Maritime Museum	$6,589	1	9%
Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum	$6,400	1	n/a
Sitka Maritime Heritage Society	$5,777	1	8%

Museums Alaska Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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 37.

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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 FoundationAK68.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · The Alaska Community Foundation · The CIRI Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Atwood Foundation Inc · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundation · Juneau Community Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation

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 Museums Alaska Inc

How much does Museums Alaska Inc give?: Museums Alaska Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $212,329, out of $250,320 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Museums Alaska Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (89%), Community Improvement (3%), Environment (3%).
Who are Museums Alaska Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alutiiq Heritage Foundation ($289k), Sealaska Heritage Institute ($203k), Anchorage Museum Association ($164k).
Does Museums Alaska Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Museums Alaska Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, Alaska Humanities Forum, The Alaska Community Foundation.
Where is Museums Alaska Inc based?: Museums Alaska Inc is based in AK.