· Private foundation
Alaskan Leader Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BROTHER FRANCIS SHELTER | $7,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ALEKNAGIK TRADITIONAL COUNCIL | $3,000 |
| KODIAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST SERAPHIM OF SAROV | $2,000 |
| NATIVE VILLAGE OF PORT HEIDEN | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| DILLINGHAM SENIOR CENTER | $2,000 |
| HOLY ROSARY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| UNITED TRIBES OF BRISTOL BAY | $1,400 |
| TWIN HILLS VILLAGE COUNCIL | $1,200 |
| TRADITIONAL COUNCIL OF TOGIAK | $1,000 |
| CLARKS POINT VILLAGE COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| LITTLE ANGELS CHILDCARE ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Alaskan Leader Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2020, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BFBROTHER FRANCIS SHELTER3× · 2017–2020 · $14k
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $9k
- KCKODIAK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL3× · 2017–2020 · $9k
Funded once
- KWKodiak Womens Resource and Cri Centerone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +8%
- KAKodiak Area Mentoring Program Incone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -39%
- MEMarrulut Eniit Assisted Living Inc % City of Dillinghamone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Exhibit Kodiak Maritime history
Provide a land area and facility for the Kodiak Island resident to enjoy outdoor activities including a fair and rodeo, concerts and other outdoor community activities.
Our mission is to support the long-term sustainability of our regions coastal communities of Alutiiq heritage. We do this in three ways, 1. Leadership & Advocacy, 2. Community Development, and 3. Our Stories.
Provide concerts, plays - both amateur and professional, festivals, art shows, education and an outlet for local art.
To educate, communicate, and inform the communities in the Kodiak Island Borough. And to capture the communities history everyday.
The Kodiak Kindness Project (KKP) exists to help families nourish their babies' bodies and souls, providing free, individualized education and support for nourishing their babies, regardless of income or feeding choices, filing a crucial…
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
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.
The mission of Kenai Alive! is to change lifestyle behaviors on the Kenai Peninsula. It is also involved and is taking the lead in developing a Health Prevention Network in Kenai.
To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…
Consumer Advocacy
At KodiakCare, we love dogs and their people. KodiakCare saves the lives of dogs by providing funding for critical veterinary care to families who lack financial means.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center and the most unlike its peers is Little Angels Childcare Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 53 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LITTLE ANGELS CHILDCARE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Kodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center ↗
- Who funds Kodiak Area Mentoring Program Inc ↗
- Who funds Hospice and Palliative Care-Ko ↗
- Who funds Marrulut Eniit Assisted Living Inc % City of Dillingham ↗
- Who funds SAFE AND FEAR-FREE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Island Trails Network ↗
- Who funds Threshold Services Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Network for Good · Amazonsmile 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 organization Alaskan Leader 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.
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 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.
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