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Museums Alaska Inc

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

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $212,329, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,320 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $37,991 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$176k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$20,906
ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION$20,504
CHUGACH MUSEUM$20,298
ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KAKE$20,000
ALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN$20,000
CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU$20,000
EAGLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUMS$19,945
FRIENDS OF THE STATE LIBRARY$19,883
MAT-SU TRAILS AND PARKS FOUNDATION$19,040
KETCHIKAN MUSEUMS$17,470
SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE$14,283
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%NATIVE VILLAGE OF EYAK: $20k → 7%ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $53k → 8%SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER: $35k → 8%SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $45k → 8%KETCHIKAN MUSEUMS: $43k → 9%PALMER MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART: $30k → 10%Sheldon Museum and Cultrl Ctr: $53k → 10%ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER INC: $55k → 10%Homer Society of Nat History: $21k → 11%BRISTOL BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $20k → 14%ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KAKE: $20k → 15%MORRIS THOMPSON CULTURAL AND VISITO: $20k → 21%ALUTIIQ MUSEUM & ARCHAEOLOGICAL REP: $50k → 8%SHELDON JACKSON MUSEUM: $26k → 8%SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $36k → 8%KETCHIKAN MUSEUMS: $34k → 9%SHELDON MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER: $26k → 10%ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER INC: $21k → 10%ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $45k → 8%SITKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $21k → 8%SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $35k → 8%KETCHIKAN MUSEUMS: $33k → 9%ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS: $32k → 8%SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $22k → 8%CAPE FOX CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%Alaska Museum of SciNature: $35k → 10%ALUTIIQ MUSEUM & ARCHAEOLOGICAL REP: $35k → 8%U OF AK MUSEUM OF THE NORTH: $27k → 8%CITY AND BOROUGH OF JUNEAU: $20k → 8%KODIAK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $29k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS: $21k → 8%SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $20k → 8%KODIAK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $22k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS: $20k → 8%AUNT CLAUDIA'S DOLL'S A MUSEUM: $20k → 8%ALUTIIQ MUSEUM & ARCHAEOLOGICAL REP: $22k → 8%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $25k → 10%ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $21k → 8%ALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOC INC: $30k → 10%CHUGACH MUSEUM: $20k → 10%ALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOC INC: $20k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $68k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $37k → 10%FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $24k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $23k → 10%FRATERNAL ORDER OF ALASKA STATE: $20k → 10%ALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN: $20k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 36 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
13

Total granted

$2.3M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

69%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementAnimalsRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AH
    ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +46%
  • SH
    SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +310%
  • AM
    Anchorage Museum Association
    6× · 2018–2024 · $164k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • SS
    SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue -3%
  • FA
    FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $24k · revenue +84%
  • FO
    FRATERNAL ORDER OF ALASKA STATE TROOPERS CHARITY CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +2%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
2
Katmai Conservancy

Katmai Conservancy supports the preservation of Katmai National Park and Preserve its unique ecosystems scenic character and associated natural and cultural resources by promoting greater public interest appreciation and support through…

Environment
3
Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment

The mission of the Alaska Aviation Museum Endowment is to enhance and ensure the financial security of the Alaska Aviation Museum now and for future generations.

Arts & Culture
4
Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art C/O Denver Art Museu
Arts & Culture
5
Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation

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

Arts & Culture
6
Three Rivers Museum of Muskogee Inc
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7
The Aleut Foundation
Education
8
Chelan County Historical Society

Developed by, for, and in conjunction with the community, the cashmere museum and pioneer village seeks to engage, educate, and entertain visitors both local and international. hundreds of volunteers have worked thousands of hours to make…

Arts & Culture
9
Cook Inlet Historical Society Inc

The cook inlet historical society (cihs) is a private non-profit historical society focused on the anchorage area. since its founding cihs has worked to foster discussion, research, and publication of the history and ethnography of…

—
10
Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association

Preservation of moving image material

Unclassified
11
Kittitas County Historical Society
Arts & Culture
12
Wasilla-Knik Historical Society

Historic Preservation

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clausen Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 52 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $288,789 · Arts & CultureALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATIONSEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $202,805 · Arts & CultureSEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTEAnchorage Museum Association: $163,884 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Museum AssociationAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $86,300 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native Heritage Center IncKodiak Historical Society: $79,199 · Arts & CultureKodiak Historical SocietyAlaska Aviation Museum: $70,336 · Arts & CultureMuseum of the Aleutians: $57,488 · Arts & CultureHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $55,274 · Arts & CulturePalmer Museum of History and Art: $51,925 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ALASKA STATE LIBRARY: $51,094 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $303,807 · Arts & Culture+15 moreCity of Ketchikan: $153,251 · OtherCity of KetchikanSHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $141,894 · OtherSHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INCUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $129,790 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAState Of Alaska: $112,243 · OtherState Of AlaskaCITY & BOROUGH OF JUNEAU: $58,452 · OtherCITY & BOROUGH OF JUNEAUNATIVE VILLAGE OF EYAK: $48,358 · OtherNATIVE VILLAGE OF EYAKEAGLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ALASKA: $39,931 · Other+12 more: $188,000 · Other+12 moreALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC: $49,920 · Community ImprovementFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $24,119 · Community ImprovementALASKA MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRATERNAL ORDER OF ALASKA STATE TROOPERS CHARITY CORPORATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $26,510 · EnvironmentMAT-SU TRAILS & PARKS FOUNDATION: $19,040 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN BALD EAGLE FOUNDATION HAINES CHAPTER INC: $12,684 · Animals
Arts & Culture$1,410,901Other$871,919Community Improvement$74,039Youth Development$70,000Environment$61,510Recreation & Sports$19,040Animals$12,684

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $288,789 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetSEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE: $202,805 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association: $163,884 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: $141,894 over 6y, 16% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $86,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKodiak Historical Society: $79,199 over 4y, 13% of budgetAlaska Aviation Museum: $70,336 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMuseum of the Aleutians: $57,488 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $55,274 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetPalmer Museum of History and Art: $51,925 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ALASKA STATE LIBRARY: $51,094 over 3y, 23% of budgetALASKA MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND NATURE: $50,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetALEUTIAN PRIBILOF ISLANDS ASSOCIATION INC: $49,920 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ALASKA: $39,931 over 2y, 64% of budgetCape Fox Cultural Foundation: $36,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetSITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBristol Bay Historical Society Inc: $34,920 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetMORRIS THOMPSON CULTURAL AND VISITORS CENTER: $30,200 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFairbanks Childrens Museum: $28,402 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSITKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $27,257 over 2y, 10% of budgetALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $26,510 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTalkeetna Historical Society Inc: $25,645 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetInterior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation: $25,110 over 3y, 17% of budgetFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $24,119 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHammer Museum Inc: $20,734 over 2y, 12% of budgetFRATERNAL ORDER OF ALASKA STATE TROOPERS CHARITY CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetVALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $19,791 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMAT-SU TRAILS & PARKS FOUNDATION: $19,040 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center: $15,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetALASKA JEWISH HISTORICAL MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $12,931 over 2y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN BALD EAGLE FOUNDATION HAINES CHAPTER INC: $12,684 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCLAUSEN MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $12,394 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetCORDOVA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,262 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetALASKA ASSOCIATION FOR HISTORIC PRE: $8,870 over 1y, 19% of budgetFRIENDS OF SHELDON JACKSON MUSEUM: $8,404 over 1y, 12% of budgetKodiak Maritime Museum: $6,589 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetSITKA MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY: $5,777 over 1y, 8.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 FoundationAlaska Humanities For…The Alaska Community …The CIRI FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Atwood Foundation IncFrances & David Rose …Alaska Native Tribal …Rural Alaska Communit…Juneau Community Foun…Alaska Children's Tru…Richard L and Diane M…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Museums Alaska Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Museums Alaska Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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