Alaska · Nonprofit
Anchorage Museum Association
Anchorage Museum Association (Alaska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,568,077 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($6,840,376). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Anchorage Museum Association is better cushioned than half of the 772 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 772 arts & culture nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Ellsworth Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Sholton Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of Anchorageshared funderslocal
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 46% · 2019 40% · 2020 65% · 2021 64% · 2022 51% · 2023 46% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Anchorage Museum Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $3.4M → $299k.
9 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Anchorage Museum Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 funders by total. 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
Anchorage Museum Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 91% · 2019 43% · 2020 34% · 2021 24% · 2022 41% · 2023 62% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
41% of Anchorage Museum Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
78% of Anchorage Museum Association's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $541k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 38 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ellsworth Foundationlocalportfolio matchAK · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sholton Foundationlocalportfolio matchAK · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Anchorageshared funderslocalAK · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · funds 38 organizations near you
- The Usibelli Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Children's Trustshared funderslocalAK · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 44 organizations near you
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA ThreadlocalAK · funds 135 organizations near you
- Juneau Community FoundationlocalAK · funds 48 organizations near you
- Anchorage Mayors Charity BalllocalAK · funds 19 organizations near you
- 10 Chefs InclocalAK · funds 15 organizations near you
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Incshared fundersNY · backs 65 organizations that share your funders
- Alaska Conservation FoundationlocalAK · funds 33 organizations near you
- Providence Alaska FoundationlocalAK · 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.
Government funding Anchorage Museum Association receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$590k
- National Endowment for the Arts$335k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$231k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Anchorage Museum Association
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.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Anchorage Museum Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Anchorage Museum Association: 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 Anchorage Museum Association?
- Anchorage Museum Association (Alaska) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,568,077 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($6,840,376). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Anchorage Museum Association have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $11,568,077 in grants to Anchorage Museum Association, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Anchorage Museum Association?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,840,376 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Anchorage Museum Association 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 38funders 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