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.
- Revenue FY2022
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $274k
- Net assets
- $454k
What Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center Inc does
Mission
The sheldon museum, an educational institution which is a component of the haines borough located in the state of alaska, is committed to collecting, preserving and interpreting the history, art, and unique blending of diverse cultures within the chilkat valley region.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The sheldon museum is an integral part of the haines alaska community. Our institution has reduced visitor access this year (10291 site visits) due to covid-19. Exhibit galleries are upstairs, research archives and staff offices are downstairs, and the entrance and gift store are on the mezzanine level between them. The large main gallery exhibits, which change every three years, incorporate art, historical objects, photographs, maps, and interactives. The current exhibit "everything from afar drifts ashore" focuses on 1850 to 1910 in the chilkat valley when it transitioned from an all-native area to a mixed population. Each year numerous smaller temporary exhibits include traveling history and art shows, as well as guest curated exhibits and six week solo or duo juried exhibitions by local artists. A children's interactive gallery features early life in the chilkat valley and educational activities. 263 school children visited the museum with their class this year. Other activities preserving and presenting the history of the chilkat valley are supported. The impact of the covid 19 pandemic on museum patronage, attendance and admissions income was significant in fy20: after the…
$122,643 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $122,643.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $97k to $293k (+203%).
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
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.
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 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.
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
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.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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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.
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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 6 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