Alaska · Nonprofit
SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC
SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,518 to it, the largest being Museums Alaska Inc ($141,894). 4 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.
- United Way of Anchorageshared funders
- Idaho Humanities Council Incportfolio match
- Montana History Foundationportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 57% · 2020 49% · 2021 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $65k → $27k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC’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
SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 61% · 2019 67% · 2020 44% · 2021 53% · 2022 58% · 2023 72% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $92k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Anchorageshared fundersAK · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Idaho Humanities Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Montana History Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The CIRI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Montanaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wyeth Foundation for American Artportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Coby Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pilara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Humanities Washingtonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Hudson Heritage Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancement in Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atwood Foundation Incshared fundersAK · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $544k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$410k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$135k
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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC
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
89%
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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC: 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 SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $273,518 to it, the largest being Museums Alaska Inc ($141,894). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $273,518 in grants to SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC?
- Museums Alaska Inc is the largest funder on record, with $141,894 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHELDON MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER INC 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 6funders 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