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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 it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$44kEnvironment$29kRecreation & Sports$26kYouth Development$22kArts & Culture$19kHuman Services$17kCrime & Legal$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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
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.

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.

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3
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.

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4
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
5
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.

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6
Rural Idaho & Mountain West Primary Care
Health
7
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
8
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
9
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
10
Valley Vision Inc

To provide for the expansion of the employment base of Nez Perce County, by promoting the benefits of Nez Perce County to businesses and industries throughout the world that may have an interest in conducting operations in Nez Perce County.

—
11
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
12
Community of Curtis Bay Association Inc

The Community of Curtis Bay Association works to create a stable, healthy & strong community for residents, workers and environment.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center; 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 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗
  • Who funds Emergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez ↗

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.

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

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 Copper Valley Electric Association Commu funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Copper Valley Electric Association Commu. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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