· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| BEAN'S CAFE THE CHILDRENS LUNCHBOX | $20,000 |
| YWCA | $20,000 |
| HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER | $15,000 |
| PAUL B SHARAR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHALLENGE ALASKA | $10,000 |
| BOB FINCH MEMORIAL FUND | $10,000 |
| VILAS FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY-IRONWOOD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| MATSU FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CHUGACH AVALANCHE CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CACHUGACH AVALANCHE CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
- AJALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 DONOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG PET RESCUE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Mat-Su Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Challenge Alaska ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIONS EYE BANK ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ↗
- Who funds Alaska Farmland Trust Corporation ↗
- Who funds FIGGE ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Wasilla Youth Baseball ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brad Sethness Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brad Sethness Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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