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Bethel Community Services Foundation

Community philanthropy - leadership, capacity building, fund development, and grantmaking.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$123k
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, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$1.6MHousing & Shelter$453kEducation$293kRecreation & Sports$273kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kReligion$166kHealth$125kAnimals$84kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $264,006, the rows itemized in this filing. The $307,323 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,317 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 $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $129k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $123k
$21,299
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORP NORTHWEST: $18k → 8%CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INST: $21k → 9%UAF - CHUKCHI CAMPUS: $154k → 8%FOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $17k → 10%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $889k → 22%CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INST: $19k → 9%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $267k → 22%CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INST: $15k → 9%BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $237k → 22%CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INST: $11k → 9%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $186k → 22%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $133k → 22%LOWER KUSKOKWIM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $124k → 22%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $123k → 22%BETHEL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $82k → 22%UAF - KUSKOKWIM CAMPUS: $76k → 22%KUSKOKWIM 300: $62k → 22%BETHEL BROADCASTINGKYUK: $59k → 22%KUSKOKWIM 300: $57k → 22%BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $56k → 22%BETHEL FAMILY CLINIC: $55k → 22%BETHEL EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH: $52k → 22%BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $51k → 22%YUUT ELITNAURVIAT - PEOPLES LNG CT: $51k → 22%VFW AUXILIARY POST 10041: $50k → 22%KUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE: $50k → 22%SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP: $44k → 22%BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $34k → 22%BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $32k → 22%BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $26k → 22%TUNDRA WOMEN'S COALITION: $26k → 22%BETHEL LIONS CLUB: $25k → 22%BETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE: $25k → 22%BETHEL UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH: $25k → 22%BETHEL KOREAN FULL GOSPEL CHURCH: $25k → 22%VFW AUXILIARY POST 10041: $25k → 22%BETHEL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $22k → 22%BETHEL EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH: $22k → 22%HOPE IN ALASKA MINISTRY: $20k → 22%YUKON-KUSKOKWIM HEALTH CORPORATION: $20k → 22%YUKON-KUSKOKWIM HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $17k → 22%IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHUR: $15k → 22%BETHEL LIONS CLUB: $12k → 22%BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $12k → 22%YUKON-KUSKOKWIM HEALTH ORGANIZATION: $11k → 22%BETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $11k → 22%BETHEL LIONS CLUB: $10k → 22%KUSPUK SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 22%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 14 repeat orgs$566k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$3.0M
$566k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+4%

Still filing today

79%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsAnimalsInternationalEducationHealthOther
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

  • TW
    Tundra Womens Coalition
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +46% · 28% of their budget
  • BW
    BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB
    5× · 2020–2024 · $403k · revenue +18%
  • K3
    KUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE
    3× · 2018–2020 · $169k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
    one grant, 2020 · $230k
  • LK
    LOWER KUSKOKWIM SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $124k
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -39%
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
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
3
Bering Sea Womans Group

Provide Shelter to Battered Women and Children

Human Services
4
Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Stand Up Alaska

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…

Civil Rights
6
Kodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center

Provide support services to persons in crisis as a result of domestic violence or sexual assault. Maintain a shelter building.

Human Services
7
Alaska Police & Fire Chaplains

Offer assistance for emergency personnel.

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8
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
9
Alaska Humane Society

To provide care for cats with shelter, food, medical assistance, spay-neuter and supplies.

Animals
10
Alaska Chapter of Delta Waterfowl Foundation

Wildlife Conservation

Animals
11
The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center

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…

Education
12
Humane Society of Kodiak

To prevent cruelty to animals

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethel Friends of Canines; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 28 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tundra Womens Coalition: $1,631,837 · OtherTundra Womens CoalitionUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $229,777 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAKUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE: $168,700 · OtherKUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEELOWER KUSKOKWIM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $124,269 · Other+18 more: $599,947 · Other+18 moreBETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $403,292 · Housing & ShelterBETHEL WINTE…SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP: $167,586 · Recreation & SportsBETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $84,245 · AnimalsCROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: $73,114 · InternationalYuut Elitnaurviat-Peoples Learning Center: $68,321 · EducationBethel Family Clinic: $61,092 · Health
Other$2,754,530Housing & Shelter$403,292Recreation & Sports$167,586Animals$84,245International$73,114Education$68,321Health$61,092

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 budgetTundra Womens Coalition: $1,631,837 over 7y, 28% of budgetBETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB: $403,292 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetKUSKOKWIM 300 RACE COMMITTEE: $168,700 over 3y, 15% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP: $167,586 over 6y, 19% of budgetBETHEL BROADCASTING INC: $86,317 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetBETHEL FRIENDS OF CANINES: $84,245 over 7y, 12% of budgetVeterans Of Foreign Wars Department of Alaska (Robert V Lindsey Ladies Auxi liary To Post 10041): $75,000 over 2y, 90% of budgetCROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: $73,114 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetYuut Elitnaurviat-Peoples Learning Center: $68,321 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetBethel Family Clinic: $61,092 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBETHEL SEARCH AND RESCUE: $40,803 over 3y, 21% of budgetJESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS NORTHWEST: $17,547 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFood Bank of Alaska: $17,338 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 …Alaska Native Tribal …John C Hughes Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK35.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bethel Community Services Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bethel Community Services Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest: 38% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Bethel Community Services Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bethel Community Services 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 28 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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