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Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
88%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 8
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$726k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 88% of the organizations Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $372k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$50k50%
FY20248$412k88%
FY20231$60k100%
FY20228$233kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Civil Rights$380kPublic Benefit$218kPhilanthropy$170kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$13k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alaska Federation of Natives$275,00022%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$170,00020%
Veterans for All Voters$30,00012%
Alaska Institute For Justice$30,00012%
Alaska Municipal League$25,0001n/a
Get Out the Native Vote$16,850115%
Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc$15,00012%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group$10,00011%
Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness$10,00011%
Tanana Chiefs Conference$7,5001n/a
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All grantees of Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alaska Federation of Natives$275,00022%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$170,00020%
Veterans for All Voters$30,00012%
Alaska Institute For Justice$30,00012%
Alaska Municipal League$25,0001n/a
Get Out the Native Vote$16,850115%
Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc$15,00012%
Alaska Public Interest Research Group$10,00011%
Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness$10,00011%
Tanana Chiefs Conference$7,5001n/a
Alaska Rural Health and Education$5,0001n/a
Kids Voting North Alaska Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($160k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlaska Federation of Natives: $275,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVeterans for All Voters: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAlaska Institute For Justice: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGet Out the Native Vote: $16,850 over 1y, 15% of budgetPolynesian Association of Alaska Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAlaska Public Interest Research Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAnchorage Coalition to End Homelessness: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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 FoundationAK21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community 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.

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How do I get to Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation

How much does Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation give?
Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (47%), Public Benefit (27%), Philanthropy (21%).
Who are Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Alaska Federation of Natives ($275k), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($170k), Veterans for All Voters ($30k).
Does Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation.
Where is Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation based?
Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation is based in AK.

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 18 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-PF 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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