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Ellsworth 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $100,000 |
| PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BABY2BABY | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCATION | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCATION | $30,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $25,000 |
| CAMP FIRE ALASKA | $25,000 |
| ALASKA JEWISH CAMPUS | $25,000 |
| ALASKA RUSH SOCCER CLUB | $25,000 |
| ALYESKA SKI CLUB | $15,000 |
| ALASKA STATE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL RESCUE | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES COUNTY ANIMAL CARE | $10,000 |
| ANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY | $10,000 |
| ALYESKA SKI CLUB | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 22 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
- PAPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $161k · revenue +66%
- ASAlaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $48k · revenue +11%
- CAChallenge Alaska2× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- 1C10 Chefs Incone grant, 2024 · $210k · revenue -19% · 45% of their budget
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +19%
- ASANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.
As the official representative of the state of alaska, to promote and integrate athletic and cultural activities for the youth of alaska with the youth of the international circumpolar north.
National amateur sports (softball) competition
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
To provide and to encourage the sport of amateur hockey.
To build musicianship, inspire youth to love music, offering enriching opportunities for musical performance and create a musical legacy that will sustain an appreciation of the arts throughout the lives of our members and community.
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 professional interest of membership
We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
The anchorage museum association operates the anchorage museum at rasmuson center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 10 Chefs Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Alaska Special Olympics DBA Special Olympics Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds Challenge Alaska ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ALYESKA SKI CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska State Hockey Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SG UNITED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE SPORTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Best Friends Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ANCHORAGE HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Denali Montessori PTSA ↗
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: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ellsworth 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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