How much did FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

culture camp

2021

culture camp

2022

healthpacific islandereconomic

2023

native villagecultureeducationarts

2024

gwichinlanguagedinjii zhuhzhuh kyasisteroceanculture

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k7 grants · $47k
$10k–50k6 grants · $112k
$50k–250k3 grants · $387k

$11,800

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
TKC FISH WHEEL$8,000
HAA TOO YEI YATEE$8,000
CENTRAL COUNCIL TLINGIT & HAIDA$8,000
BIG SISTER HELPLING LITTLE SISTER$7,000
VILLAGE OF SOLOMON$6,000
ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC$5,445

02The need

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 (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

Korean Cultural Center Alaska

The Korean Cultural Association of Alaska KCCA promotes sharing the cultural heritage of Korean and encouraging cross-cultural understanding through exchanging diverse cultural values to empower all people, build a bridge, and celebrate…

Arts & Culture

Anchorage Museum Foundation

To provide support to the anchorage musuem association for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.

Arts & Culture

Alaska Wildlife Conservation

Awcc is a sanctuary dedicated to preserving alaska's wildlife through conservation, research, education, and quality animal care.

Animals

Fairbanks Native Association

To promote spirituality, cultural identity, self-reliance, physical and mental health, by improving the quality of life for of our community through professional quality services.

Health

Alaska World Affairs Council

Education regarding world affairs.

International

Alaska Historical Publication Association

Education

Cook Inlet Tribal Council

Citc's (cook inlet tribal council) mission is to work in partnership with alaska native/american indian individuals to connect them to opportunities that fulfill their potential through education and training, child and family services,…

Human Services

Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska

The Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska promotes the conservation and wise use of Alaskas natural resources through broad-based education initiatives designed to provide Alaskans the skills and knowledge to enjoy the outdoors in a safe,…

Environment

Arctic Slope Native Association

The arctic slope native association was organized as an alaskan non-profit corporation dedicated to the cause of native self determination.

Unclassified

Alaska Jewish Historical Museum &

Mission - a home for jewish history, art and culture in alaska.build cultural bridges that encourage diversity and tolerance through public education, exhibitions, lectures, films and videos; all of which tell the story of alaska's jewish…

Arts & Culture

Alaska Native Sisterhood Association

Cultural activities and classes - 20 participants per class - 6 classes

Human Services

Haida Roots

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…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Candid. 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 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/42

the rest of the field

312/3,471

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.

05the grantee network

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/22

Grantees still filing

18/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,062,423Environment$235,000Arts & Culture$75,010Civil Rights$60,000Philanthropy$37,000Education$36,800Public Benefit$25,000

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.

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.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK38× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Rasmuson Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Alaska Humanities Forum · Cook Inlet Tribal Council · Museums Alaska Inc · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TONGASS TLINGIT CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +68% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 834691886 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TONGASS TLINGIT CULTURAL HERITAGE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to First Alaskans Institute?

Find your warmest path to First Alaskans Institute through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Alaskans Institute?

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FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to First Alaskans Institute?

More from the funding graph