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First Alaskans Institute
True to identity, heritage, and values, alaska natives are informed and engaged in leading the decisions that shape the future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $545,800 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $582,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $36,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $235,000 |
| ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES | $101,545 |
| NATIVE PEOPLES COMMUNITY ACTION FUN | $50,000 |
| GWICH'IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL | $30,000 |
| NUDLAGHI LEADERSHP INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| THE MOBILIZATION CENTER LLC | $20,000 |
| KAKE TRIBAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ANCCS INC | $11,800 |
| CHILKOOT INDIAN ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL COUNCIL TLINGIT & HAIDA | $8,000 |
| HAA TOO YEI YATEE | $8,000 |
| TKC FISH WHEEL | $8,000 |
| BIG SISTER HELPLING LITTLE SISTER | $7,000 |
| VILLAGE OF SOLOMON | $6,000 |
| ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC | $5,445 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Haida Roots is committed to preserving the endangered Haida language (Alaskan dialect) for future generations. Our mission is to connect community members living in the Seattle area to the Haida language and culture through programs and…
Cultural activities and classes - 20 participants per class - 6 classes
To promote and celebrate the uniqueness of alaska native arts and heritage. improve the economic well being of alaska native artists; invigorate education and training of the next generation of alaska native artists; increase awareness of…
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.
Katmai Conservancy supports the preservation of Katmai National Park and Preserve its unique ecosystems scenic character and associated natural and cultural resources by promoting greater public interest appreciation and support through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rasmuson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 ALASKA FEDERATION OF NATIVES ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Native Peoples Action Inc ↗
- Who funds GWICH'IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF ALASKA INC ↗
- Who funds NUDLAGHI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KAKE TRIBAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOATAK NATIVE STORE NATIVE VILLAGE OF NOATAK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANCCS INC ↗
- Who funds XKKF ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds The CIRI Foundation ↗
- Who funds RASMUSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TONGASS TLINGIT CULTURAL HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CANDID ↗
- Who funds TKC Fish Wheel ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY ALASKA NATIVES FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · First Nations Development Institute · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Kawerak Inc · Alaska Humanities Forum · Rsf Social Finance 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 First Alaskans Institute 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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