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Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$551k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.9MHuman Services$1.0MPhilanthropy$604kHousing & Shelter$200kEnvironment$198kReligion$164kPublic Benefit$156kCivil Rights$152kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$54,990
Median grant
1
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bethel Community Services$551,127
Southeast Alaska Food Bank$398,635
Upper Susitna Food Pantry$307,585
Native Vill of Unalakleet$197,512
Valdez Food Bank$189,450
Armed Services YMCA$150,778
Lutheran Social Services$132,701
Tlingit & Haida Indian Tri$100,000
Catholic Social Services$90,840
Kenai Peninsula Food Bank$74,389
Native Village of Tetlin$55,221
Maniilaq Association$54,990
Brother Francis of Kodiak$51,420
Hoonah Indian Association$38,395
MatSu Senior Services$35,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $740k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kids Kupboard: $91k → 10%Maniilaq Association: $55k → 20%Valdez Food Bank: $189k → 7%Emergency Assistance and Food: $20k → 7%Wasilla Area Seniors: $22k → 10%Valdez Food Bank: $11k → 7%Frontline Mission: $15k → 10%Homer Comm Food Pantry: $41k → 11%Lutheran Social Services: $133k → 22%Frontier Mission: $11k → 10%Frontline Mission: $6k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $91k → 10%Cook Inlet Tribal Council: $20k → 10%Nenana Tortella Council on Ag: $35k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.8M · 18 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
49

Total granted

$3.8M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyOther

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

  • KP
    KENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $693k · revenue +3%
  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $604k · revenue +301%
  • FC
    FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $417k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • BC
    Beans Cafe Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +21%
  • CR
    Copper River Native Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $116k · revenue 0%
  • EA
    ECO A CONVENANT ORDER OF EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIANS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.

Food & Nutrition
2
Unalaska Senior Citizens

Unalaska senior citizens is committed to providing nutrition, transportation, information and support services that promote the health and well-being of our elders and to assist them in living independently and remaining active, vital…

Human Services
3
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Marrulut Eniit Assisted Living Inc % City of Dillingham

To provide assisted living services to elderly native Americans living in Dillingham, Alaska. In 2020, MEAL discontinued operating as an assisted living facility and started leasing its space to Bristol Bay Area Health Corporation (BBAHC)…

Human Services
5
Haines Senior Citizens Center Inc

to provide for the welfare of senior citizens residing in Haines, Alaska

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6
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
7
Upper Tanana Development Corporation

To operate a nutrition, Transportation program for elders, providing meals, rides and personal advocacy, also provide space to Head Start program operated by Rural Cap. Our goal is to provide economic, social and educational development…

Human Services
8
Ketchikan Committee for the Homeless Inc

Provide temporary shelter for the homeless of ketchikan ak. the shelter serves as a temporary place for shelter, not a permanent residence. served appoximately 200 individuals.

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9
Snohomish Community Food Bank

To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need

—
10
Council On Aging & Human Services

Enhancing lives and building communities by providing transportation and nutrition services.

Human Services
11
Seattle Indian Center
Human Services
12
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wasilla Area Seniors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids Kupboard. 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr18%44%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr17%25%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr18%49%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
11%
386/3,555

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.

04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
13/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INC — $692,670 · Food & NutritionKENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INCSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK — $604,062 · Food & NutritionSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANKFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC — $417,425 · Food & NutritionFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INCUPPER SUSITNA FOOD PANTRY — $327,585 · Food & NutritionUPPER SUSITNA FOOD PANTRYDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $79,186 · Food & NutritionMat-Su Food Bank — $78,803 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $690 · Food & NutritionNative Village of Unalakleet — $197,512 · OtherNative Village of UnalakleetARMED SERVICES YMCA OF ALASKA — $160,408 · OtherARMED SERVICES YMCA OF ALASKAHOONAH INDIAN ASSOCIATION — $150,000 · OtherHOONAH INDIAN ASSOCIATIONCopper River Native Association Inc — $116,411 · OtherCopper River Native Association In…CCTHITA — $100,000 · OtherCCTHITAECO A CONVENANT ORDER OF EVANGELICAL PRESBYTERIANS — $100,000 · OtherECO A CONVENANT ORDER OF EVANGELIC…CHUGIAK EAGLE RIVER FOOD PANTRY — $89,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $82,130 · OtherManley Village Council — $81,796 · OtherKAWERAK INC — $74,485 · OtherHELPING HANDS FOOD BANK — $68,000 · OtherFive Loaves Food Pantry — $60,000 · Other+40 more — $466,687 · Other+40 moreEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez — $220,000 · Human ServicesEmergency Assi…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA — $132,701 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIA…Kids Kupboard — $91,000 · Human ServicesKids KupboardCatholic Social Services — $90,840 · Human ServicesCatholic Socia…Maniilaq Association — $54,990 · Human ServicesManiilaq Assoc…HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $41,126 · Human ServicesHOMER COMMUNIT…NENANA TORTELLA COUNCIL ON AGING — $35,293 · Human ServicesFRONTLINE MISSION — $31,864 · Human Services+2 more — $42,050 · Human Services+2 moreBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $603,501 · PhilanthropyBETHEL COMM…Brother Francis Shelter Kodiak — $150,219 · Housing & ShelterBeans Cafe Inc — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterJUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE — $29,585 · Housing & ShelterCOOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterBLOOD N FIRE MINISTRY OF ALASKA — $56,000 · ReligionLove in Action — $6,517 · Religion
Food & Nutrition$2,200,421Other$1,746,929Human Services$739,864Philanthropy$603,501Housing & Shelter$349,804Religion$62,517

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INC — $692,670 over 5y, 11% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK — $604,062 over 5y, 16% of budgetBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $603,501 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC — $417,425 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetUPPER SUSITNA FOOD PANTRY — $327,585 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez — $220,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBrother Francis Shelter Kodiak — $150,219 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA — $132,701 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCopper River Native Association Inc — $116,411 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKids Kupboard — $91,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $90,840 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHUGIAK EAGLE RIVER FOOD PANTRY — $89,500 over 1y, 68% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $79,186 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMat-Su Food Bank — $78,803 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetKAWERAK INC — $74,485 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD N FIRE MINISTRY OF ALASKA — $56,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetHOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $41,126 over 1y, 14% of budgetNENANA TORTELLA COUNCIL ON AGING — $35,293 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetPALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRONTLINE MISSION — $31,864 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetJUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE — $29,585 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUpper Susitna Seniors Inc — $27,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNOME COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $26,240 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWasilla Area Seniors Inc — $22,050 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCook Inlet Tribal Council — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove in Action — $6,517 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNINILCHIK SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $690 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 …Rasmuson FoundationValley Hospital Assoc…Richard L and Diane M…The Kroger Co Foundat…Rural Alaska Communit…The Carr Foundation I…Global Credit Union F…Providence Alaska Fou…United Way of Anchora…Mta Foundation IncAlaska Children's Tru…
The Alaska Community FoundationAK65.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Kroger Co Foundation · Rural Alaska Community Action Program · The Carr Foundation Inc · Global Credit Union Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Mta Foundation Inc · Alaska Children's Trust

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 Food Bank of Alaska 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your 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
    12report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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