Skip to content

Alaska · Public charity

Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball

To provide fundraising assistance to various Anchorage Alaska charities that are randomly selected on an annual basis. Funds are raised by hosting an annual black tie charity ball.

$379k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$94,263
Largest grant, FY2024
$112,359
Organizations funded a year
4 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$11k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving4$379k100%
FY20234$159k100%
FY20224$242k100%
FY20194$180k100%
FY20184$169k100%
FY20174$224kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$316kHealth$273kHuman Services$236kYouth Development$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$112kEducation$109kRecreation & Sports$98kFood & Nutrition$89k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation Inc: $112,359 over 1y, 60% of budgetKids Corps Inc: $94,263 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlaska Adoption Services: $87,778 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAnchorage Community Theater Inc: $84,918 over 1y, 26% of budgetAnchorage Hospice Inc: $66,250 over 1y, 13% of budgetAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska: $63,380 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFour Valleys Community School Inc: $60,118 over 1y, 33% of budgetAlaska Trails: $58,020 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGirdwood Health Clinic Inc: $56,398 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetYWCA Alaska: $54,240 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAlaska Theatre of Youth: $53,905 over 1y, 43% of budgetThe Arc of Anchorage: $47,434 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $44,634 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCamp Fire Alaska: $43,849 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlaska Dance Theatre Inc: $43,004 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetAlaska Youth Orchestras: $40,699 over 1y, 22% of budgetParachute Ministries: $40,584 over 1y, 16% of budgetAlaska Association of Figure Skaters: $40,094 over 1y, 24% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $39,904 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Alaska: $36,038 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 20.

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.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK48.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Swanson Family Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · MEWebber Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · 10 Chefs Inc

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.

Compare Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball?

Find your warmest path to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball 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 Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball

How much does Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball give?
Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball reported 4 grants totaling $379,318 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Health (20%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation Inc ($112k), Kids Corps Inc ($94k), Alaska Adoption Services ($88k).
Does Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Alaska Community Foundation, Rasmuson Foundation, The Carr Foundation Inc.
Where is Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball based?
Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball 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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball’s filings →

More from the funding graph