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Fairbanks Arts Association

Promotion and preservation of the arts

$61k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$240kYouth Development$8k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $48,283, the rows itemized in this filing. The $60,817 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,534 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,189
Median grant
1
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FESTIVAL OF NATIVE ARTS$8,634
FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION$7,443
FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL$7,244
FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION$7,189
FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATRE$6,387
THE FOLK SCHOOL$5,895
YOUNG NATIVE FIDDLERS$5,491
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%FAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $7k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 21%FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATRE: $6k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 21%FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATRE: $6k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $8k → 21%FAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $6k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $7k → 21%YOUNG NATIVE FIDDLERS: $5k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $7k → 21%FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATRE: $5k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $6k → 21%FAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $5k → 8%FAIRBANKS NATIVE ASSOCIATION: $6k → 21%FAIRBANKS LIGHT OPERA THEATRE: $5k → 8%FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION: $6k → 21%FAIRBANKS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6k → 8%FESTIVAL OF NATIVE ARTS: $9k → 8%NORTHSTAR DANCE FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$220k · 7 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$220k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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

  • FC
    FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +32%
  • FS
    FAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +967% · 52% of their budget
  • TF
    The Folk School
    2× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • NS
    North Star Dance Foundation North Star Balletgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +34%
  • FN
    Fairbanks Native Association
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +3%
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
Snedden Family Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Opera Fairbanks

To provide performance, educational, and promotional opportunities to alaskans via high quality opera.

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3
Alaska Dance Theatre Inc

Alaska Dance Theatre is a Not-For-Profit school of dance, and performing company, committed to promoting dance through professional education, performance and advocacy in Alaska.

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4
Dance Theatre Fairbanks

Dance Theatre Fairbanks' mission is to provide high-quality dance education that inspires creativity, discipline, and confidence in students of all ages. Through professional instruction, performance opportunities, and community…

Arts & Culture
5
Alaska Folk Festival Inc

Alaska residents benefit from free public admission to an arts and culture festival; the week-long festival encourages non-professional musicians and performers, and has been operating since 1975.

Arts & Culture
6
Anchorage Classical Ballet Academy

Preserve the Art of Classical Ballet

Education
7
Anchorage Concert Association Inc

Our Mission is to inspire and enhance the community through the Performing Arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Fairbanks Arts Association

Promotion and preservation of the arts

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9
Fairbank Development Corporation

provide community based entertainment through annual town celebration.

Community Improvement
10
Downtown Association of Fairbanks

The downtown association of fairbanks promotes, preserves and revitalizes downtown fairbanks through their downtown map guide, downtown member spotlights, quarterly newsletters, community interactive website, maintenance of the historic…

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11
University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni Association

The university of alaska fairbanks alumni association connects and supports uaf and its alumni. we encourage excellence in all aspects of the university and provide opportunities for alumni to engage in lifelong involvement with their…

Education
12
Anchorage Opera Company

Anchorage opera is the center of the artistic creation, innovation and education through the presentation of opera and related events encouraging public collaboration and community engagement for the people of the state of alaska.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Symphony Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Folk School. 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 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $58,036 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATIONFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $50,616 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INCFairbanks Light Opera Theatre: $22,337 · Arts & CultureFairbanks Light Opera TheatreFAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $17,120 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRENorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $7,600 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL: $47,952 · OtherFAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVA…FAIRBANKS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,614 · OtherFAIRBANKS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATIO…YOUNG NATIVE FIDDLERS INC: $5,491 · OtherYOUNG NATIVE FIDDLERS INCThe Folk School: $13,495 · Youth DevelopmentUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $8,634 · EducationFairbanks Native Association: $6,085 · Health
Arts & Culture$155,709Other$64,057Youth Development$13,495Education$8,634Health$6,085

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $58,036 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $50,616 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL: $47,952 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetFairbanks Light Opera Theatre: $22,337 over 4y, 18% of budgetFAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $17,120 over 3y, 52% of budgetThe Folk School: $13,495 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,614 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $8,634 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $7,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFairbanks Native Association: $6,085 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Rasmuson FoundationBill Stroecker Founda…Richard L and Diane M…The Usibelli Foundati…The Alaska Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Bill Stroecker Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Usibelli Foundation · The Alaska Community 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 Fairbanks Arts Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairbanks Arts Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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 Fairbanks Arts Association?

    Find your warmest path to Fairbanks Arts Association 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 11 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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