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Alaska Conservation Foundation

Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
57
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$258k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$8.0MCommunity Improvement$1.5MCivil Rights$811kHealth$454kArts & Culture$338kPhilanthropy$325kAnimals$289kEducation$217kOther$0
02FY2025 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $840k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $963k
  • $250k+1 grant · $258k
$15,449
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%KODIAK AREA NATIVE ASSOCIATION: $47k → 8%BRISTOL BAY NATIVE ASSOCIATION: $29k → 20%Brisol Bay Native Association: $15k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 62 repeat orgs$861k to everyone else

62 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
31

Total granted

$11M
$704k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+69%

Still filing today

68%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SR
    SPRUCE ROOT INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $869k · revenue ×13
  • SC
    SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $816k · revenue +179%
  • AP
    Alaska Pacific University
    5× · 2021–2025 · $811k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • IV
    IGIUGIG VILLAGE
    one grant, 2024 · $150k
  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ALASKA WILDERNESS EXPLORATION ANALYSIS AND DISCOVERY
    one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue -99% · 32% of their budget
  • WM
    WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $41k · revenue +23%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska

Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.

Arts & Culture
2
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission

The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo…

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3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
5
Alaska Nannut Co-Management Council

The alaska nannut co-management council (ancc) was established to represent the collective alaska native voice in polar bear co-management. ancc is a tribally authorized organization with membership consisting of the 15 tribes in alaska…

Animals
6
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
7
Arctic Encounter

The mission of the Arctic Encounter Symposium is to convene leaders and experts from every arena to tackle the shared interests and concerns of the United States and the global community as we look north to the last emerging frontierthe…

Environment
8
Bering Sea Fishermens Association

Western alaska fisheries support and restoration.

Community Improvement
9
Alaska Association of Conservation Districts Inc

The primary purpose of aacd is to provide administrative support to local districts and expend funds to carry our local programs aimed at conservation and orderly development of alaska's land and water resources.

Environment
10
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
11
Wild Salmon Rivers

To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…

Environment
12
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Alaska Environmental Center; the most unlike its peers is Southeast Alaska Wilderness Exploration Analysis and Discovery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/69
Grantees still filing
48/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $815,874 · EnvironmentSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETYRENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT: $542,777 · EnvironmentRENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECTNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $466,392 · EnvironmentNATIVE CONSERVANCYTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND: $364,739 · EnvironmentTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUNDNORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $356,665 · EnvironmentNORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTERTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $318,178 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES FOR ALASKACOOK INLETKEEPER: $306,180 · EnvironmentCOOK INLETKEEPERSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC: $281,330 · EnvironmentCoalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives: $232,125 · EnvironmentAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission: $199,001 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES: $192,328 · Environment+25 more: $1,390,423 · Environment+25 moreTribal Government of St Paul Island: $283,867 · OtherTribal Government of St Paul IslandUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $255,195 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEASTStand for Salmon: $250,000 · OtherStand for SalmonNATIVE VILLAGE OF EKLUTNA: $245,069 · OtherNATIVE VILLAGE OF EKLUTNATHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $229,107 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KASAAN: $206,669 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $197,000 · OtherTraditional Council of Togiak: $171,793 · OtherORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KAKE: $163,240 · OtherOrganized Village of Kasaan: $152,025 · OtherIGIUGIG VILLAGE: $150,000 · OtherNATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE: $146,841 · Other+41 more: $1,457,495 · Other+41 moreSPRUCE ROOT INC: $869,018 · Community ImprovementSPRUCE ROOT…NATIVE MOVEMENT: $241,750 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVE…ALASKA LONGLINE FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION: $158,080 · Community ImprovementALASKA LONG…+1 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementAlaska Pacific University: $810,825 · EducationSpirit of Youth: $35,000 · EducationANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $434,077 · HealthTanana Chiefs Conference: $20,000 · HealthSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSI: $52,000 · AnimalsBIRD TREATMENT & LEARNING CENTER: $40,600 · AnimalsNORTON BAY INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $20,216 · AnimalsTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $20,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife: $16,950 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $10,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $8,000 · AnimalsAlaska Village Initiatives: $134,786 · Philanthropy
Environment$5,466,012Other$3,908,301Community Improvement$1,288,848Education$845,825Health$454,077Animals$167,766Philanthropy$134,786

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $869,018 over 6y, 20% of budgetSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $815,874 over 9y, 17% of budgetAlaska Pacific University: $810,825 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetRENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT: $542,777 over 8y, 23% of budgetNATIVE CONSERVANCY: $466,392 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $434,077 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND: $364,739 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetNORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER: $356,665 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA: $318,178 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetCOOK INLETKEEPER: $306,180 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetSoutheast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC: $281,330 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetStand for Salmon: $250,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $241,750 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCoalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives: $232,125 over 8y, 50% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $229,107 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAhtna Intertribal Resource Commission: $199,001 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES: $192,328 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA WATERSHED COALITION: $171,767 over 3y, 12% of budgetALASKA LONGLINE FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION: $158,080 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS: $150,080 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION: $139,080 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetAlaska Village Initiatives: $134,786 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $129,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE: $124,915 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $113,880 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC: $91,640 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetGWICHIN STEERING COMMITTEE: $80,450 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $71,542 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Wildlife Alliance: $64,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetYukon River Inter-Tribal Watershed Council: $64,080 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ALASKA CENTER: $63,119 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA WILDERNESS EXPLORATION ANALYSIS AND DISCOVERY: $55,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetKenai Watershed Forum: $54,080 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDIGINOUS TRANSBOUNDARY COMMISSI: $52,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetKodiak Area Native Association: $47,373 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBristol Bay Native Association Inc: $43,387 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC: $41,318 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIRD TREATMENT & LEARNING CENTER: $40,600 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetTYONEK TRIBAL CONSERVATION DISTRICT: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpirit of Youth: $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetYukon River Drainage Fisheries Association: $27,375 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNative Peoples Action Community Fund: $27,097 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetAlaska Public Interest Research Group: $27,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLYNN CANAL CONSERVATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON BAY INTER-TRIBAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $20,216 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTanana Chiefs Conference: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
  • Who funds SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Pacific University ↗
  • Who funds RENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES FOR ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds COOK INLETKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-SEACC ↗
  • Who funds Stand for Salmon ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Coalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHEAST ALASKA WATERSHED COALITION ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA LONGLINE FISHERMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA MARINE COMMUNITY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Village Initiatives ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …First Nations Develop…PatagoniaorgAlaska Native Tribal …New Venture FundCharlotte y Martin Fo…True North FoundationNational Fish and Wil…Ocean ConservancySeventh Generation Fu…National Forest Found…
Rasmuson FoundationAK78.4× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alaska Conservation Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alaska Conservation Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 100%
  • Wildlife Management Institute Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home