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Atwood Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
87
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$9.4MEducation$3.2MPhilanthropy$946kCommunity Improvement$569kInternational$268kEnvironment$203kYouth Development$201kHuman Services$199kOther$0
02FY2024 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $992k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
$14,350
Median grant
2
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$210,000
ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$175,000
ALASKA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY$150,000
ANCHORAGE OPERA$125,000
ANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$120,000
ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION$100,000
ALASKA JUNIOR THEATER$70,000
CYRANO'S THEATER COMPANY$65,000
NORTHERN CULTURE EXCHANGE$60,000
FORAKER GROUP$60,000
ANCHORAGE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP LTD$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION$50,000
ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY THEATRE$45,000
PULSE DANCE COMPANY$42,000
ALASKA YOUTH ORCHESTRAS$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOLD STAR PEAK INC: $5k → 10%GOLD STAR PEAK INC: $5k → 10%GOLD STAR PEAK INC: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF ALASKA: $10k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL: $12k → 10%YOUTH EXPLORING ADVENTURES INC: $3k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE OF ALASKA: $20k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL: $12k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL: $10k → 10%ADP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE OF ALASKA: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE OF ALASKA: $20k → 10%ADP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE OF ALASKA: $20k → 10%ADP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $15k → 10%ADP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Atwood Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Atwood Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$14M · 93 repeat orgs$882k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

93 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
43

Total granted

$14M
$649k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+14%

Still filing today

74%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AP
    Alaska Pacific University
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +57%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
  • AM
    Anchorage Museum Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AM
    Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +78% · 33% of their budget
  • AH
    AK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • SP
    SOBROSOL PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k

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

04Your 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.

1
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
2
Alaska Folk Festival Inc

Alaska residents benefit from free public admission to an arts and culture festival; the week-long festival encourages non-professional musicians and performers, and has been operating since 1975.

Arts & Culture
3
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Anchorage Folk Festival Inc

Organize, promote, and produce a 10 day winter music festival which provides workshops for learning, a stage for performing, and professional guest artists for entertaining. An estimated 10,000 people attend the festival annually from all…

Youth Development
5
Anchorage Opera Company

Anchorage opera is the center of the artistic creation, innovation and education through the presentation of opera and related events encouraging public collaboration and community engagement for the people of the state of alaska.

Arts & Culture
6
The Aleut Foundation
Education
7
Arctic Education Foundation
Education
8
Alaska Wins

AK Wins promotes responsible economic development, fiscal policy and general prosperity by educating, engaging and empowering Alaskans on important public policy issues.

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9
Alaska Association for Historic Pre

To educate the public about hisroric preservation and help restore and preserve historic sites.

Unclassified
10
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
11
Alaska Center for the Book

ACB, an affiliate of the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress, is a non-profit, all volunteer organization celebrating the richness and diversity of language. We were founded in 1991 to stimulate public interest in literacy…

Arts & Culture
12
Alaska Airlines Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inside Out Media. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%8%<5yr12%9%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr18%24%35–55yr15%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%3%<5yr12%2%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr18%26%35–55yr15%39%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/117
the rest of the field
13%
225/1,743

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

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 100 of the 153 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
70/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Anchorage Museum Association — $1,090,000 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Museum AssociationANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $815,694 · Arts & CultureANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAAnchorage Concert Association Inc — $560,000 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Concert Association IncAlaska Junior Theater Inc — $535,000 · Arts & CultureAlaska Junior Theater IncNorthen Culture Exchange — $490,250 · Arts & CultureNorthen Culture ExchangeCyrano's Theatre Company — $418,900 · Arts & CultureCyrano's Theatre CompanyANCHORAGE COMMUNITY THEATER INC — $288,200 · Arts & CulturePULSE DANCE COMPANY — $249,500 · Arts & Culture+37 more — $2,604,339 · Arts & Culture+37 moreAlaska Pacific University — $1,520,000 · EducationAlaska Pacific Universi…UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $1,258,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FO…Alaska Press Club — $170,000 · Education+8 more — $336,833 · Education+8 moreANCHORAGE OPERA — $748,841 · OtherANCHORAGE OPERAPERSEVERANCE THEATER INC — $295,000 · OtherPERSEVERANCE THEATER IN…Alaska Dance Theatre Inc — $181,500 · OtherAlaska Dance Theatre In…ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $150,000 · Other+75 more — $1,820,969 · Other+75 moreThe Alaska Community Foundation — $922,800 · PhilanthropyThe Alask…THE FORAKER GROUP — $362,580 · PhilanthropyTHE FORAK…+1 more — $23,114 · PhilanthropyALASKA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL — $203,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF THE NORTH — $55,000 · InternationalJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc — $9,500 · InternationalAlaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association — $150,000 · EnvironmentANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $65,000 · EnvironmentARCTIC ENCOUNTER — $20,000 · EnvironmentALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $12,500 · EnvironmentALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ALASKA CENTER EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · EnvironmentCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $120,000 · Human ServicesADP COMMUNITY SERVICES — $66,846 · Human ServicesCook Inlet Tribal Council — $33,500 · Human ServicesGOLD STAR PEAK INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,900 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$7,051,883Education$3,285,333Other$3,196,310Philanthropy$1,308,494International$267,500Environment$267,500Human Services$253,246

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlaska Pacific University — $1,520,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $1,258,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association — $1,090,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation — $922,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — $815,694 over 8y, 16% of budgetAnchorage Concert Association Inc — $560,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetAlaska Junior Theater Inc — $535,000 over 8y, 22% of budgetNorthen Culture Exchange — $490,250 over 8y, 49% of budgetCyrano's Theatre Company — $418,900 over 7y, 21% of budgetTHE FORAKER GROUP — $362,580 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetANCHORAGE COMMUNITY THEATER INC — $288,200 over 8y, 35% of budgetPULSE DANCE COMPANY — $249,500 over 8y, 39% of budgetMOMENTUM DANCE COLLECTIVE — $234,000 over 7y, 53% of budgetALASKA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL — $203,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $200,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSITKA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $187,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetAlaska Youth Orchestras — $183,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetAlaska Dance Theatre Inc — $181,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetAlaska Press Club — $170,000 over 3y, 79% of budgetALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC — $150,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAlaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association — $150,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetKEYS TO LIFE — $147,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM — $145,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetANCHORAGE CONCERT CHORUS — $130,490 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetAlaska Aviation Museum — $127,763 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetOut North — $127,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $120,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL — $104,000 over 8y, 48% of budgetALASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSN INC — $102,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA — $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc — $88,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetANCHORAGE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP LTD — $82,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetALASKA ZOO — $82,486 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetAnchorage Classical Ballet Academy — $81,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetAlaska Theatre of Youth — $80,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetALASKA SOUND CELEBRATION A CHAPTER OF SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL CHORUS — $78,300 over 7y, 19% of budgetPerseverance Theatre Incorporated — $70,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetALASKA JAZZ WORKSHOP — $69,000 over 6y, 24% of budgetADP COMMUNITY SERVICES — $66,846 over 4y, 18% of budgetANCHORAGE FESTIVAL OF MUSIC — $66,455 over 7y, 41% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $65,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSTORYKNIFE WRITERS RETREAT — $62,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE NORTH — $55,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetALASKA CHAMBER SINGERS — $54,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetALASKA LIBRARY NETWORK — $52,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALASKA ARTS AND CULTURE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetAsian Alaskan Cultual Center — $45,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetTHE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budget
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.

  • Who funds Alaska Pacific University ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Anchorage Museum Association ↗
  • Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds Anchorage Concert Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Junior Theater Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northen Culture Exchange ↗
  • Who funds Cyrano's Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds THE FORAKER GROUP ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds PULSE DANCE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM DANCE COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SITKA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Youth Orchestras ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Dance Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Press Club ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Mountain & Wilderness Huts Association dba Alaska Huts Association ↗
  • Who funds KEYS TO LIFE ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE CONCERT CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Aviation Museum ↗
  • Who funds Out North ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA SCHOOL ACTIVITIES ASSN INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP LTD ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA ZOO ↗
  • Who funds Anchorage Classical Ballet Academy ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Theatre of Youth ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA SOUND CELEBRATION A CHAPTER OF SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL CHORUS ↗
  • Who funds Perseverance Theatre Incorporated ↗

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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …Richard L and Diane M…The Carr Foundation I…Alaska Humanities For…Frances & David Rose …M J Murdock Charitabl…The CIRI FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…Valley Hospital Assoc…Anchorage Mayors Char…Gottstein Family Foun…
Rasmuson FoundationAK129.1× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Humanities Forum · Frances & David Rose Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The CIRI Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball · Gottstein Family 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 organization Atwood Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your 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
    18report 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

    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 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Atwood Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Atwood Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 153 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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