· Private foundation
Benito and Frances Gaguine Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $403k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DIOCESAN | $142,689 |
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN | $60,000 |
| JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| OUTSIDE IN | $50,000 |
| MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL | $44,360 |
| PERSEVERANCE THEATRE | $12,500 |
| JUNEAU GHOST LIGHT THEATRE | $10,000 |
| JUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE | $6,000 |
| JUNEAU PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2017–2023 · $13M · revenue +81%
OUTSIDE IN7× · 2017–2024 · $275k · revenue +95%- ALAlaska Legal Services Corporation6× · 2017–2022 · $215k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- CCCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORPone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -39%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $325k · revenue +39%- WRWORLD RELIEF SEATTLEone grant, 2020 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
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.
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
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…
We engage, empower, and elect alaskans to stand up for our clean air and water, healthy communities, and a strong democracy.
Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.
Strengthen our culture of giving and improve the quality on life among the people of the Arctic Slope region of Alaska by providing and administering grants to support the community health and economic stability of the villages of Point…
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…
FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Juneau Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Appleton Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 78 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE IN ↗
- Who funds THE APPLETON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Alaska Legal Services Corporation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GETTYSBURG-LEON INC ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Fresno ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds Facing Foster Care in Alaska ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Perseverance Theatre Incorporated ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR SOUP INC ↗
- Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
- Who funds Alaska Heat Smart ↗
- Who funds UNITED HUMAN SERVICES OF SE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALASKA LAND TRUST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Juneau Community Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · The Avista Foundation · S B Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · Alaska Children's Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
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 Benito and Frances Gaguine Foundation 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.
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
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.
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