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Brad Sethness 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT | $28,000 |
| HATCHER ALPINE EXPERIENCE | $25,000 |
| YWCA | $20,000 |
| BEAN'S CAFE THE CHILDRENS LUNCHBOX | $20,000 |
| HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER | $15,000 |
| PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHUGACH AVALANCHE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY-IRONWOOD | $10,000 |
| VILAS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| BOB FINCH MEMORIAL FUND | $10,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| MATSU FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGE ALASKA | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- MHMISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +18%
- VFVILAS FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +78%
- HAHATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%- AJALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
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.
To promote the conservation of arctic, sub-arctic and like-climate species through education, research and community enrichment. the zoo provides rehabilitation and shelter for injured and abandoned animals. the facility is open to the…
The blood bank provides blood products and testing services to hospitals to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood in routine and emergency situations. it provides educational services to potential donors and recipients of blood…
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
The mat-su arctic winter games are coming to alaska the mat-su arctic winter games host society was formed after the bid was awarded by the arctic winter games international committee to host the games in the region. the mat-su 2024 arctic…
The alaska museum of science and nature is dedicated to the education and exploration of our scientific and natural world.
Enhance wild sheep populations, promote scientific wildlife management, educate the public on sheep and enhance sheep hunting and view opportunities in alaska.
The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
Provide public transportation to the matanuska-susitna community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the most unlike its peers is Figge Art Museum. 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 MISS HALL'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds VILAS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds GUNNISON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOB FINCH MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF VILAS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION - CLINTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Mat-Su Food Bank ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Challenge Alaska ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ↗
- Who funds Alaska Farmland Trust Corporation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Wasilla Youth Baseball ↗
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: Mta Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Brad Sethness 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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