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Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$412k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Civil Rights$380kPublic Benefit$218kPhilanthropy$170kHousing & Shelter$25kHealth$13k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $146k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$35k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alaska Federation of Natives$250,000
NEO Philanthropy$40,000
Calista Corporation$35,900
CITC$30,000
Veterans for All Voters$30,000
AKPIRG$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
Tanana Chiefs Conference$7,500
02The need
03

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 (FY22–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Polynesian Association of Alaska: $15k → 10%Alaska Institute for Justice: $30k → 10%Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

1
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
2
Alaska Black Caucus

To assert the constitutional rights of black people through involvement in the decision making processes of the community and state.

Civil Rights
3
Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education
4
Alaska Native Village Corporation Association

ANVCA promotes the success of our Village Corporations and protection of our Native lands.

Community Improvement
5
Alaska Trails

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

Recreation & Sports
6
The Alaska Center

We engage, empower, and elect alaskans to stand up for our clean air and water, healthy communities, and a strong democracy.

Environment
7
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
8
Alaska Childrens Alliance

Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…

Crime & Legal
9
Native Peoples Action Inc

Native Peoples Action gives voice to our ancestral imperative to uplift our peoples and protect our ways of life by taking a stand, working together and mobilizing action. We do this through ensuring Alaska Natives are heard in all levels…

Civil Rights
10
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
11
Stand Up Alaska

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…

Civil Rights
12
No on 2

Oppose 2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2, which would have repealed nonpartisan open primaries and ranked choice voting.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Federation of Natives and the most unlike its peers is Alaska Rural Health and Education. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES — $250,000 · OtherALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVESVeterans for Poltical Innovation — $60,000 · OtherVeterans for Poltical InnovationCalista Corporation — $35,900 · OtherCalista CorporationCITC — $30,000 · OtherCITCAlaska Municipal League — $25,000 · OtherAlaska Municipal LeagueGet Out the Native Vote — $16,850 · Other+2 more — $10,000 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc — $170,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncAlaska Public Interest Research Group — $10,000 · Public BenefitAlaska Public Interest Re…PROTEUS FUND INC — $100,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND I…Alaska Institute For Justice — $30,000 · Human ServicesPolynesian Association of Alaska Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesAnchorage Coalition to End Homelessness — $10,000 · Human ServicesAlaska Rural Health and Education — $5,000 · Human ServicesVeterans for All Voters — $30,000 · Civil RightsTanana Chiefs Conference — $7,500 · Health
Other$427,750Public Benefit$180,000Education$100,000Human Services$60,000Civil Rights$30,000Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES — $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $170,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC — $100,000 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 budgetAnchorage Coalition to End Homelessness — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlaska Public Interest Research Group — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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

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 Alaskans for Better Elections 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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