How much did Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$219kHuman Services$208kPublic Benefit$112kEducation$109kRecreation & Sports$58kHealth$56kHousing & Shelter$45kFood & Nutrition$44kYouth Development$44kOther$459k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

literacylivesdisabilities

2022

trailsbuildwellalzheimer's diseasebuilding

2023

icedisabilities

2024

childrenadoption

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$94,263

Median grant

States reached

$11k

Total assets

Largest grants

Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation$112,359
Kids Corps$94,263
Alaska Adoption Services$87,778
Anchorage Community Theatre$84,918

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

Korean Cultural Center Alaska

The Korean Cultural Association of Alaska KCCA promotes sharing the cultural heritage of Korean and encouraging cross-cultural understanding through exchanging diverse cultural values to empower all people, build a bridge, and celebrate…

Arts & Culture

The Alaska Community Foundation

Inspiring the spirit of giving and connecting people, organizations, and causes to strengthen alaska's communities now and forever.

Philanthropy

Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative

Environment

Anchorage Concert Association Inc

Our mission is to inspire and enhance the community through the performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage

Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage (NSAA) is dedicated to promoting all forms of Nordic skiing as a healthy form of individual and family activity. See Part III, line 1 and Schedule O for additional details.

Recreation & Sports

Alaska State Hockey Association Inc

Youth & adult hockey leagues, tournaments & camps promote youth hockey, develop and encourage sportmanship between all players for the betterment of the individuals physical & social well being.

Unclassified

Helping Alaska

Mobilize the church to transform lives and communities in the name of christ. local churches come together as a network. it is a cooperative partnership that enables churches to make a lasting impact to help individuals, families, and…

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Alaska 4-H Youth Development Programs

Positive youth development programming for educational, charitable, and scientific purposes supporting 4-H clubs across Alaska

Youth Development

Alaska Zoo

Conservation, education, research, and community enrichment of arctic, sub-arctic, and like-climate animals.

Animals

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

Alaska Arctic Junior Ice Hockey

To foster national and/or international amateur sports competition within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

Recreation & Sports

Alaska World Affairs Council

Education regarding world affairs.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Challenge Alaska and the most unlike its peers is Beans Cafe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1/24

the rest of the field

12%

179/1,490

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/24

Grantees still filing

15/24

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$591,791Arts & Culture$219,051Human Services$207,753Public Benefit$112,359Education$108,522Recreation & Sports$58,020Health$56,398

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.

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.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK49.8× 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 · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Atwood Foundation Inc · Providence Health & Services - · Swanson Family Foundation · MEWebber Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Global Credit Union 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 organisation Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball 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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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +64% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 832917112 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 60% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball?

Find your warmest path to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball?

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Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

24 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball?

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