Alaska · Nonprofit
Kodiak Historical Society
Kodiak Historical Society (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,646 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($206,145). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $418k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $473k
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Kodiak Historical Society does
Mission
Our mission is to facilitate exploration of the natural, cultural, and artistic heritage of Kodiak Island and surrounding communities to create opportunities for the public to discover, share, and exchange knowledge using the collections and resources made available through the operation of the Kodiak History Museum.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Kodiak Historical Museum advanced its charitable mission to preserve, interpret, and share the history and culture of Kodiak Island through comprehensive arts, education, and community engagement programs. During the fiscal year, the Museum developed and installed rotating and permanent exhibits highlighting Kodiaks Indigenous heritage, Russian and American periods, maritime history, and contemporary community stories. These exhibits were accompanied by public opening events designed to increase access and engagement for residents and visitors. The Museum actively participated in Kodiaks community arts initiatives, including regular First Friday Art Walks, offering extended hours, guided exhibit experiences, and artist and historian talks. Educational outreach remained a core focus, with the Museum hosting school field trips, teacher-supported curriculum activities, and hands-on learning experiences aligned with Alaska education standards. Programs served students from Kodiak Island schools and visiting youth groups. Additional educational programming included guided tours, workshops, lectures, and intergenerational activities for adults, families, and seniors. These programs…
$434,297 spent$251,988 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $434,297.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $3.0M (+100%).
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 33% · 2018 42% · 2019 19% · 2020 38% · 2021 14% · 2022 85% · 2023 43% · 2024 29% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
20% of Kodiak Historical Society’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Kristin O'Lear
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $20k → $36k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Kodiak 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
Kodiak Historical Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Kodiak Historical Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 97% · 2019 86% · 2020 86% · 2021 41% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — 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
14% of Kodiak Historical Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% 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
74% of Kodiak 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. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Kodiak Historical Society is better cushioned than half of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Kodiak Historical Society receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $165k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$87k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$79k
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 Kodiak Historical Society
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 Kodiak 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Kodiak Historical Society?
- Kodiak Historical Society (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $472,646 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($206,145). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kodiak Historical Society have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $472,646 in grants to Kodiak Historical Society, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kodiak Historical Society?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $206,145 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kodiak 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing