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Bethel Community Services Foundation
Community philanthropy - leadership, capacity building, fund development, and grantmaking.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $264,006 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $307,323 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $43,317 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION | $122,685 |
| SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP | $44,012 |
| BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB | $33,729 |
| CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INST | $21,299 |
| YUKON-KUSKOKWIM HEALTH CORPORATION | $19,910 |
| BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES | $10,507 |
| YUUT ELITNAURVIAT - PEOPLES LNG CT | $5,932 |
| BETHEL BROADCASTINGKYUK | $5,932 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TWTundra Womens Coalition7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46% · 28% of their budget
- BWBETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB5× · 2020–2024 · $403k · revenue +18%
- K3KUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE3× · 2018–2020 · $169k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2020 · $230k
- LKLOWER KUSKOKWIM SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $124k
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKAone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -39%
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.
Provide Shelter to Battered Women and Children
Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium (YKEALC), a nonprofit organization, was incorporated in 2004 with the purpose to provide and maintain residential facilities in Galena, Alaska, that are specifically designed to meet the needs…
To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…
Offer assistance for emergency personnel.
Provide support services to persons in crisis as a result of domestic violence or sexual assault. Maintain a shelter building.
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.
Wildlife Conservation
To provide care for cats with shelter, food, medical assistance, spay-neuter and supplies.
The business and purpose of this nonprofit corporation shall be to organize, operate and maintain a vocational and technical education center to provide education and training to the residents of Southwest Alaska and other communities; to…
Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethel Friends of Canines and the most unlike its peers is Crosscurrents International Institute. 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 43 years old; the field is 26. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% 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 7% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 Tundra Womens Coalition ↗
- Who funds BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB ↗
- Who funds KUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP ↗
- Who funds BETHEL BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES ↗
- Who funds Veterans Of Foreign Wars Department of Alaska (Robert V Lindsey Ladies Auxi liary To Post 10041) ↗
- Who funds CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Yuut Elitnaurviat-Peoples Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Bethel Family Clinic ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds BETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds BETHEL VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · The Alaska Community Foundation · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · John C Hughes Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bethel Community Services 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.
- Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest — 38% 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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