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Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball

To provide fundraising assistance to various Anchorage Alaska charities that are randomly selected on an annual basis.

$379k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$94,263
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Anchorage Firefighters Charitable Foundation$112,359
Kids Corps$94,263
Alaska Adoption Services$87,778
Anchorage Community Theatre$84,918
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 (FY17–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Alaska Adoption Services: $88k → 22%Lutheran Social Services: $54k → 22%Hospice of Anchorage: $66k → 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 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 Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
3
Arctic Access Inc

Our Mission is to provide services and opportunities for elders and people with disabilities to remain in the home and village of their choice, and to be active as possible with their families and communities.

Health
4
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
5
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
6
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
7
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
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
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.

Recreation & Sports
10
Alaska Airlines Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Alaska Avalanche Information Center Inc

To Support and promote avalanche forecasts, observations, education, research and professional development in the pursuit of healthy lifestyles and the reduction of unintentional injuries and deaths related to avalanche and backcountry…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
United Way of Anchorage

We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Anchorage; the most unlike its peers is Parachute Ministries. 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

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
15/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kids Corps Inc: $94,263 · OtherKids Corps IncAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska: $63,380 · OtherAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of AlaskaYWCA ALASKA: $54,240 · OtherYWCA ALASKAThe Arc of Anchorage: $47,434 · OtherThe Arc of AnchorageAlaska Dance Theatre Inc: $43,004 · OtherAlaska Dance Theatre IncPARACHUTE MINISTRIES: $40,584 · OtherPARACHUTE MINISTRIESALASKA ASSOCIATION OF FIGURE SKATERS: $40,094 · OtherALASKA ASSOCIATION OF FIGURE SKATERSChallenge Alaska: $39,904 · OtherChallenge AlaskaGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA: $36,038 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKABeans Cafe Inc: $44,634 · OtherBeans Cafe IncFood Bank of Alaska: $44,367 · OtherFood Bank of AlaskaCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $43,849 · OtherCAMP FIRE ALASKAANCHORAGE COMMUNITY THEATER INC: $84,918 · Arts & CultureANCHORAGE COMMUNIT…Alaska Theatre of Youth: $53,905 · Arts & CultureAlaska Theatre of …Alaska Youth Orchestras: $40,699 · Arts & CultureAlaska Youth Orche…PULSE DANCE COMPANY: $39,529 · Arts & CulturePULSE DANCE COMPAN…ALASKA ADOPTION SERVICES: $87,778 · Human ServicesALASKA ADOPTION S…ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $66,250 · Human ServicesANCHORAGE HOSPICE…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA: $53,725 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL S…ANCHORAGE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $112,359 · Public BenefitANCHORAGE…FOUR VALLEYS COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC: $60,118 · EducationFOUR VALL…Alaska Literacy Program Inc: $48,404 · EducationAlaska Li…Alaska Trails: $58,020 · Recreation & SportsGIRDWOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $56,398 · Health
Other$591,791Arts & Culture$219,051Human Services$207,753Public Benefit$112,359Education$108,522Recreation & Sports$58,020Health$56,398

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationThe Carr Foundation I…Atwood Foundation IncRichard L and Diane M…United Way of Anchora…Providence Health & S…Swanson Family Founda…Providence Alaska Fou…MEWebber FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…10 Chefs Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%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
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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 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.

    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.

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