About Alaska Humanities Forum
The Alaska Humanities Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that designs and facilitates experiences to bridge distance and difference – programming that shares and preserves the stories of people and places across our vast state, and explores what it means to be Alaskan.
Focus Areas
HumanitiesStorytelling & JournalismCross-cultural programsLeadership developmentEducationCommunity conversationsMedia/Documentary projects
Who They Fund
Indigenous artists (Alaska Native artists)children and families affected by child abuse/neglectAlaskan communities impacted by COVID-19storytellers/journalists and arts organizations
About Alaska Humanities Forum
A defining pattern at Alaska Humanities Forum is its steady $10,000 project grants for Alaska stories and community dialogue. In 2025, those grants supported Data for Indigenous Justice, Native Village of Shaktoolik, Kokhanok Village Council, Ktoo Public Media, Chugach Regional Resources Commission, Ketchikan Wellness Coalition, Out North, and Keys to Life, showing a consistent emphasis on narratives, public conversation, and place-based work across the state. The forum’s grantmaking also reaches beyond storytelling when community needs shift: in 2023, it issued $15,000 COVID relief awards to Bunnell Street Gallery, First Alaskans Institute, and North American Traditional Indian Enrichment Program Inc. That mix points to a funder that uses targeted, program-based grants rather than broad general operating support, with an emphasis on projects that bridge distance and difference in Alaska. Its work includes media, cross-cultural programs, education, leadership development, and community conversations, all tied to the humanities and to stories of people and places across Alaska.
What Alaska Humanities Forum Funds
Storytelling is central to the forum’s grantmaking. Through Stories Grants, it gave $10,000 to Data for Indigenous Justice to support narrative work rooted in Alaska’s communities, and it funded Out North and Ktoo Public Media under the same program. Community dialogue is another clear thread: Dialogues Grants are designed for public programming that brings people together to learn from one another, and the forum also uses related conversation-focused funding to support Alaska-based civic discussion. Media and documentary work appear as well. In 2024, Alaska Public Media received $10,000 for storytelling, while See Stories received $10,000 for Unsettling Alaska, reflecting support for public-facing narrative projects. The forum also funds Indigenous artists and cultural preservation, as shown by the 2024 grant to Aak'w Kwaan Coalition Council for Indigenous artists.
How Alaska Humanities Forum Gives
The posted grant size distribution is tightly clustered: p25, median, and p75 are all $10,000. That matches the forum’s recent pattern of flat project awards rather than a wide range of grant sizes. In the recent-grants list, the same amount appears repeatedly across multiple years, including 2024 and 2025, which suggests a recurring program structure instead of one-off awards. The foundation’s active programs reinforce that pattern with fixed-size offerings such as $10,000 Stories Grants and $5,000 Dialogues Grants, plus a $2,500 fellowship stipend and $250 conversation stipends. It does not fund individuals through general grants, though the fellowship and stipend programs do support people in structured formats.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$80K
Total Assets
$1.9M
Total Revenue
$2.6M
Total Expenses
$2.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $10K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$10K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
KAMERON H PEREZ-VERDIA
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