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Copper Valley Electric Association Commu

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 71% of COPPER VALLEY ELECTRIC ASSOCIATION COMMU’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$752k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER$4,000
COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION$4,000
VALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE$3,500
WISE$3,500
COPPER RIVER WATERSHED PROJECT$3,500
COPPER RIVER BASIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$3,000
SOUND WELLNESS ALLIANCE NETWORK (SWAN)$2,825
VALDEZ YOUTH WRESTLING CLUB$2,000
COPPER RIVER HOCKEY CLUB$2,000
VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE$1,500
PROJECT SANTA$1,500
VALDEZ HS NATIONAL CLOSE-UP$1,500
GLENNALLEN SCHOOL$982
COPPER VALLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY$949
VALDEZ IMAGINATION LIBRARY$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%COPPER RIVER BASIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 7%COPPER RIVER BASIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $3k → 14%COPPER RIVER BASIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 14%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 7%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 7%VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $2k → 7%VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $1k → 7%VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $1k → 7%VALEDZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE: $950 → 7%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE & FOOD BANK OF VALDEZ: $700 → 7%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE & FOOD BANK OF VALDEZ: $600 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$121k · 23 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
56

Total granted

$121k
$72k

Still filing today

35%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • CR
    Copper River Watershed Project
    5× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +6%
  • WI
    WRANGELL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +59%
  • TR
    TERMINAL RADIO INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IY
    ICUA YOUTH RALLY
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • VC
    VALEDZ CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • VC
    VALDEZ CITY SCHOOLS - 8TH GRADE SCIENCE
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Cordova Historical Society

To collect, maintain and display historical artifacts from the Cordova, Copper River, Kennecott, Katalla, Prince William Sound and adjacent areas in order to educate and to promote historic knowledge.

3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Kenai Alive

The mission of Kenai Alive! is to change lifestyle behaviors on the Kenai Peninsula. It is also involved and is taking the lead in developing a Health Prevention Network in Kenai.

5
Kodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center

Provide support services to persons in crisis as a result of domestic violence or sexual assault. Maintain a shelter building.

Human Services
6
Chugach Regional Resources Commission

The Chugach Regional Resources Commission (the Commission) was established for the purpose of providing formal advocacy to manage natural resources in ways consistent with the cultural traditions of the Chugach Native people.

7
Valdez United Way

Organizational Mission: Valdez United Way was organized to mobilize and stimulate the interest and participation of the citizens of the Valdez area on behalf of worthy education, health and welfare and youth organizations, whether local,…

Philanthropy
8
Alaska Sustainability Initiative

To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.

Animals
9
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council Inc-Seacc

SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…

Environment
10
Stand Up Alaska

To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…

Civil Rights
11
Qutekcak Native Tribe

Qutekcak native Tribe was created to promote the unity, self-determination and empowerment on the native population residing in Seward, Alaska and the surrounding areas.

12
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center and the most unlike its peers is Terminal Radio Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE — $8,100 · OtherVALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVEYOUTH RALLY — $7,947 · OtherYOUTH RALLYICUA YOUTH RALLY — $7,323 · OtherCOPPER RIVER HOCKEY CLUB — $6,540 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $5,700 · OtherHHES 2023 5TH GRADE FIELD TRIP — $5,250 · Other+70 more — $100,664 · Other+70 moreCopper River Watershed Project — $13,400 · EnvironmentCopper River W…WRANGELL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT — $12,500 · EnvironmentWRANGELL INSTI…VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE — $7,900 · Human ServicesVALDEZ ADVENT…VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC — $7,850 · Human ServicesVALDEZ SENIOR…Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center — $7,500 · Human ServicesCopper River …Emergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez — $1,300 · Human ServicesTERMINAL RADIO INC — $8,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$141,524Environment$25,900Human Services$24,550Arts & Culture$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCopper River Watershed Project — $13,400 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWRANGELL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT — $12,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTERMINAL RADIO INC — $8,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE — $7,900 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCopper River Basin Child Advocacy Center — $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSound Wellness Alliance Network — $4,325 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCopper River Native Association Inc — $4,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStepping Stones Learning Center — $1,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez — $1,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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 Copper River Watershed Project
  • Who funds WRANGELL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT
  • Who funds TERMINAL RADIO INC
  • Who funds VALDEZ ADVENTURE ALLIANCE
  • Who funds VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC
  • Who funds Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center
  • Who funds Sound Wellness Alliance Network
  • Who funds Copper River Native Association Inc
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Learning Center

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.

Valdez United WayAK22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Valdez United Way · Rasmuson Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · 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 Copper Valley Electric Association Commu 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Copper Valley Electric Association Commu?

    Find your warmest path to Copper Valley Electric Association Commu through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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