How much did ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Environment$4.9MCommunity Improvement$1.1MEducation$846kHealth$434kAnimals$168kPhilanthropy$135kCivil Rights$129kArts & Culture$93kHuman Services$76kOther$3.1M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

catalystinternsops advocacyalaskas salmonsalmon salmonsalmon habitatsrc

2020

coordinationmaritimemanagementinformationscience-basedwild salmoncoord

2021

makingleadershipythtrailvalleyadvocoutreach ops

2022

wildernessdefensecollective conservmovement buildingnative peopleslandensure

2023

benefitdefensemovement buildingwatercollective conservendowmentcollective conservat

2024

indigenous sentinelsdefensecollective conservmovement buildingnative peoplesendowmentcollective conservat

2025

rapid responsemining preventadapt coastsenvironmentsalariesbenefitindigenous sentinels

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k8 grants · $59k
$10k–50k38 grants · $840k
$50k–250k10 grants · $963k
$250k+1 grant · $258k

$15,449

Median grant

States reached

$17M

Total assets

Largest grants

ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$258,378
NATIVE CONSERVANCY$226,439
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST$140,732
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS$93,386
ALASKA SEEDS OF CHANGE$82,566
SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY$82,361
ALEUT COMMUNITY OF ST PAUL$78,069
NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL$74,299
SPRUCE ROOT INC$73,392
ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE$56,215
NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE$55,911
KODIAK AREA NATIVE ASSOCIATION$47,373
TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA$45,000
COOK INLET KEEPER$44,000
SOUTHEAST ALASKA CONSERVATION$42,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 38% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$10M · 62 repeat orgs$779k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$10M

$578k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+56%

Still filing today

69%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementEducationRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

AP
ALSAKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
5× · 2021–2025 · $811k · revenue +45%
SC
Sitka Conservation Society
8× · 2018–2025 · $710k · revenue +158%
SR
Spruce Root Inc
5× · 2018–2025 · $706k · revenue +1162%

Funded once

IV
IGIUGIG VILLAGE COUNCIL
one grant, 2024 · $150k
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Seawead (SE AK Wld Exp)
one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue -99% · 32% of their budget
WM
WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE
one grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue +9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

To safeguard the bowhead whale and its habitat, to defend the Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling Rights of our members, and to preserve the cultural and traditional values of our communities.

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Alaska World Affairs Council

Education regarding world affairs.

International

Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative

Environment

Alaska Historical Publication Association

Education

Alaska Zoo

Conservation, education, research, and community enrichment of arctic, sub-arctic, and like-climate animals.

Animals

Katmai Conservancy

Katmai Conservancy supports the preservation of Katmai National Park and Preserve its unique ecosystems scenic character and associated natural and cultural resources by promoting greater public interest appreciation and support through…

Environment

Cook Inlet Tribal Council

Citc's (cook inlet tribal council) mission is to work in partnership with alaska native/american indian individuals to connect them to opportunities that fulfill their potential through education and training, child and family services,…

Human Services

Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska

The Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska promotes the conservation and wise use of Alaskas natural resources through broad-based education initiatives designed to provide Alaskans the skills and knowledge to enjoy the outdoors in a safe,…

Environment

The Alaska Community Foundation

Inspiring the spirit of giving and connecting people, organizations, and causes to strengthen alaska's communities now and forever.

Philanthropy

Alaska Association of Conservation

To help all alaska's local soil and water districts function efficiently. aacd facilitates natural resource conservation efforts by providing technical guidance for resource management.

Environment

Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.

Public Safety & Disaster

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Wilderness League and the most unlike its peers is New Venture Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%2/94

the rest of the field

10%

1,725/16,523

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

60/65

Grantees still filing

49/65

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$4,886,888Other$3,423,748Community Improvement$1,101,154Education$845,825Health$434,077Animals$167,766Philanthropy$134,786

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK65.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Patagoniaorg · Seventh Generation Fund · New Venture Fund · Charlotte y Martin Foundation-Ima · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · True North Foundation · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · National Forest Foundation · Tortuga Charitable Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SUSITNA RIVER COALTION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320352363 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SUSITNA RIVER COALTION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 50% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Alaska Conservation Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alaska Conservation Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alaska Conservation Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

65 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Alaska Conservation Foundation?

More from the funding graph