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Bill Stroecker Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $190k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $415k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $585k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $80,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| ALASKA AIRMEN'S ASSOCIATION | $70,000 |
| FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION | $55,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $44,000 |
| FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $35,000 |
| LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA | $29,373 |
| BREAD LINE INC | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $22,800 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $22,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH INC | $22,000 |
| MONROE FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| NORTH STAR COUNCIL AGING | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +17%
- FCFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +731%
- FRFAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- FNFairbanks Native Associationone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
- RCROTARY CARES ALASKAone grant, 2023 · $25k
- FCFAIRBANKS CURLING CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +41%
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.
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
The university of alaska fairbanks alumni association connects and supports uaf and its alumni. we encourage excellence in all aspects of the university and provide opportunities for alumni to engage in lifelong involvement with their…
The downtown association of fairbanks promotes, preserves and revitalizes downtown fairbanks through their downtown map guide, downtown member spotlights, quarterly newsletters, community interactive website, maintenance of the historic…
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.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
The purpose is to support all fairbanks north star borough public libraries, to enhance their operations, to encourage and support expansion of library buildings, facilities, and equipment, and to create, manage, and build an investment…
Southeast Alaska State Fair Inc enriches community by hosting celebrations of heritage, creativity, and social exchange. Southeast Alaska State Fair hosts a regional Fair and plans and operates other events that enhance the economic,…
To be an economic driver in the fairbanks region by marketing to potential visitors and optimizing the visitor experience.
The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce is the leading voice advocating for the community by supporting business prosperity in the Interior.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 83 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 UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MONROE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS CURLING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Interior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation ↗
- Who funds North Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet ↗
- Who funds HELPING ALASKA ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds PIONEER MEMORIAL PARK INC ↗
- Who funds YUKON QUEST INTERNATIONAL LTD ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FARTHEST NORTH GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ACCURACY IN MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA MINING HALL OF FAME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF ALASKA ↗
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 Usibelli Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Marion G Weeks Foundation · Fairbanks Arts Association · Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04 · Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation · The Norman Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Igloo #4 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 Bill Stroecker 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.
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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