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Anchorage Park Foundation

Builds healthy parks and healthy people by mobilizing public support and financial resources for anchorage parks, trails, and recreation opportunities.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$159kEnvironment$73kHealth$25kArts & Culture$24kHousing & Shelter$9k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $132,288, the rows itemized in this filing. The $149,365 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,077 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $123k
$23,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANWIN$25,000
ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH$25,000
ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$23,500
ALASKA TRAILS$23,000
NORDIC SKIING ASSOCIATION$16,988
CHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS$10,000
COOK INLET HOUSING AUTHORITY$8,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS: $10k → 10%ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 22%FAR NORTH BICENTENNIAL PARKBLM: $13k → 10%COOK INLET HOUSING AUTHORITY: $9k → 22%FAR NORTH BICENTENNIAL PARKBLM: $11k → 10%AIRPORT HEIGHTS COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $5k → 10%NORDIC SKIING ASSOCIATION: $17k → 10%ALASKA DISC GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%ANCHORAGE WEST LITTLE LEAGUE: $10k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $24k → 10%FRIENDS OF FISH CREEK: $16k → 10%FAIRVIEW COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $7k → 10%RILKE SCHULE INC: $9k → 10%RILKE SCHULE INC: $6k → 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
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$97k · 3 repeat orgs$193k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

$97k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+1%

Still filing today

67%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $109k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AT
    Alaska Trails
    2× · 2022–2024 · $58k · revenue +60%
  • FN
    FAR NORTH BICENTENNIAL PARKBLM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $24k
  • RS
    Rilke Schule Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AW
    ANCHORAGE WATERWAYS COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF FISH CREEK
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
  • SA
    Singletrack Advocatesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

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
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
2
Homer Cycling Club

Homer Cycling Clubs mission is to promote bicycling as environmentally friendly healthy and enjoyable pursuit within the Homer area and beyond. This includes the promoting construction of mountain bike trails in the area and maintenance of…

Recreation & Sports
3
Alpine Trails Foundation

Trail maintenance

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4
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
5
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
6
Valley Mountain Bikers and Hikers

We are a recreational trail advocacy group based in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley region of Alaska. We are dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of sustainable trails for hikers and mountain bikers throughout the Valley.

Recreation & Sports
7
Overland Mountain Bike Association

Promote and support skills and safety for mountain biking in and around the front range of northern Colorado and southern Wyoming. This includes trail upkeep and expansion and safe biking education.

Recreation & Sports
8
Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands

Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands is dedicated to the preservation, care, and enjoyment of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.

Environment
9
Alpine Trails and Pathways

We are a trails and pathways organization. Designing, Building, and maintaining non-motorized trail systems for the benefit of the Alpine and North Lincoln County community.

Recreation & Sports
10
Beaverhead Trails Coalition

Enhancement and development of trails on public lands in Beaverhead County

Environment
11
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
12
Kachemak Nordic Ski Club Inc

Maintain and groom over non-motorized trails in the Homer area for skiing, snowshoeing, and hiking. Sponsor ski events and facilitate programssuch as public school sports

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nordic Skiing Association of Anchorage; the most unlike its peers is Singletrack Advocates. 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

9 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. 9 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Alaska Trails: $58,000 · Recreation & SportsAlaska TrailsNordic Skiing Association of Anchorage: $16,988 · Recreation & SportsNordic Skiing Association of AnchorageSingletrack Advocates: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsSingletrack AdvocatesAnchorage West Little League Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsAnchorage West Little League IncCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERSCANWIN: $25,000 · OtherCANWINFAR NORTH BICENTENNIAL PARKBLM: $24,125 · OtherFAR NORTH BICENTENNIAL PARKBLMFRIENDS OF FISH CREEK: $15,835 · OtherFRIENDS OF FISH CREEKALASKA DISC GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · OtherALASKA DISC GOLF ASSOCIATIONCOOK INLET HOUSING AUTHORITY: $8,800 · OtherCOOK INLET HOUSING AUTHORITYFAIRVIEW COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $7,220 · OtherFAIRVIEW COMMUNITY COUNCILAIRPORT HEIGHTS COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $5,386 · OtherAIRPORT HEIGHTS COMMUNITY COUNCILANCHORAGE WATERWAYS COUNCIL: $25,000 · EnvironmentANCHORAGE…ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthANCHORAGE…Anchorage Museum Association: $23,500 · Arts & CultureAnchorage…Rilke Schule Inc: $15,000 · Education
Recreation & Sports$104,988Other$96,366Environment$25,000Health$25,000Arts & Culture$23,500Education$15,000

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 budgetAlaska Trails: $58,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetANCHORAGE WATERWAYS COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association: $23,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNordic Skiing Association of Anchorage: $16,988 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRilke Schule Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSingletrack Advocates: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCHUGACH MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDERS: $10,000 over 1y, 11% 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 …M J Murdock Charitabl…Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Anchorage Park Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anchorage Park Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Anchorage Park Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Anchorage Park 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 16 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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