Alaska · Nonprofit
ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,300 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($43,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Museums Alaska Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Bill Stroecker Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- John C Hughes Foundationlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $10k.
From the IRS filings of ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 48% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Museums Alaska Incshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bill Stroecker Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- John C Hughes Foundationlocalportfolio matchAK · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sholton Foundationlocalportfolio matchAK · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The CIRI Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of the Tanana Valley Incshared fundersAK · backs 18 organizations that share your funders
- Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Anchorageshared funderslocalAK · backs 20 organizations that share your funders · funds 37 organizations near you
- The Carr Foundation Incshared funderslocalAK · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · funds 52 organizations near you
- Anchorage Mayors Charity BalllocalAK · funds 19 organizations near you
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA ThreadlocalAK · funds 117 organizations near you
- Swanson Family FoundationlocalDE · funds 20 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alaska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $118,300 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($43,550). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $118,300 in grants to ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $43,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing