· Private foundation
Bristol Bay Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k279 grants · $840k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE AND PENINSULA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $14,766 |
| Individual grant recipient | $14,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $8,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA | $8,000 |
| THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
381 repeat relationships: 170 still active in FY2024, 211 since wound down; 91 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $293k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $34k · revenue +71%
- BBBristol Bay Historical Society Inc3× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +119%
- SASAFE AND FEAR-FREE ENVIRONMENT INC2× · 2019–2020 · $7k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SRSOUTHWEST REGION SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2023 · $14k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
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 BBNA is to maintain and promote a strong regional organization supported by the Tribes of Bristol Bay to serve as a unified voice to provide social, economic, cultural, educational opportunities and initiatives to benefit…
To provide health care with competence and sensitivity.
Organize and assist kodiak island borough students to pursue post-secondary education in their chosen field of study, and to assist institutions of post-secondary education or training located within the kodiak island borough
Apu provides a world-class, hands-on, culturally-responsive educational experience in collaboration with our students, communities, and tribal partners.
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo…
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
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 educate students to be exceptional learners and independent thinkers of vision, courage, and integrity.
Consumer Advocacy
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 1,049 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp · The Alaska Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bristol Bay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bristol Bay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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