How much does Bill Stroecker Foundation give?

Bill Stroecker Foundation reported 74 grants totaling $1,189,448 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Bill Stroecker Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Human Services (13%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Bill Stroecker Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Alaska Foundation ($2.3M), Fairbanks Community Food Bank Service Inc ($316k), Fairbanks Rescue Mission Inc ($295k).

Does Bill Stroecker Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Bill Stroecker Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bill Stroecker Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Usibelli Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation.

Where is Bill Stroecker Foundation based?

Bill Stroecker Foundation is based in AK.

Bill Stroecker Foundation

Bill Stroecker Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.5MHuman Services$1.1MArts & Culture$934kFood & Nutrition$715kRecreation & Sports$383kHousing & Shelter$320kReligion$231kAnimals$205kOther$0

02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k48 grants · $190k
$10k–50k20 grants · $415k
$50k–250k6 grants · $585k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$24M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
MONROE FOUNDATION	$22,000
JUDICIAL WATCH INC	$22,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE	$22,000
ALASKA GOLDPANNER BASEBALL INC	$20,000

02The need

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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.7M · 75 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.7M

$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+6%

Still filing today

69%

60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +17%
FC
FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $316k · revenue +731%
FR
FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +24%

Funded once

RC
ROTARY CARES ALASKA
one grant, 2023 · $25k
FN
Fairbanks Native Association
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +6%
FC
FAIRBANKS CURLING CLUB INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +41%

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.

Alaska Historical Publication Association

Education

Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education

University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni Association

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…

Education

Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc

Environment

Downtown Association of Fairbanks

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…

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Food Bank of Alaska

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.

Food & Nutrition

Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports

Fairbanks Library Foundation

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…

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Southeast Alaska State Fair Inc

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,…

Recreation & Sports

Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau

To be an economic driver in the fairbanks region by marketing to potential visitors and optimizing the visitor experience.

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Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation

Civil Rights

Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce

The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce is the leading voice advocating for the community by supporting business prosperity in the Interior.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency; 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.

04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/57

Grantees still filing

39/57

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,783,355Education$3,066,740Arts & Culture$466,273Food & Nutrition$316,091Housing & Shelter$295,449Recreation & Sports$274,625Human Services$221,011

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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 FoundationAK54.6× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

17report 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.

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By state

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