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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$726k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFL-CIO$25,000
Alaska Federation of Natives$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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
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
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 Trails

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

Recreation & Sports
5
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
6
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
No on 2

Oppose 2024 Alaska Ballot Measure 2, which would have repealed nonpartisan open primaries and ranked choice voting.

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11
Alaska Legal Services Corporation

To provide meaningful access to justice in resolving civil legal problems for low-income clients, thus promoting family stability and reducing legal consequences of poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
Project Alaska Inc

Refugee professional integration and career advancement. Project Alaska commited to empowering our clients with the skills and resources required for career advancement and occupational prosperity,enabling them to lead their best lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Federation of Natives; 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 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. 11 of the 18 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES: $275,000 · OtherALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVESVeterans for Poltical Innovation: $60,000 · OtherVeterans for Poltical InnovationCalista Corporation: $35,900 · OtherCalista CorporationCITC: $30,000 · OtherCITCAFL-CIO: $25,000 · OtherAlaska Municipal League: $25,000 · OtherGet 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 …PROTEUS FUND INC: $100,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND …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$477,750Public Benefit$180,000Education$100,000Human Services$60,000Civil Rights$30,000Health$7,500

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 budgetALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES: $275,000 over 2y, 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 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
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.

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 …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
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no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's 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, 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.
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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 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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