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Homer Foundation

To enhance the quality of life for the citizens of the greater Homer area by promoting philanthropic and charitable activities.

$707k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% 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$409kRecreation & Sports$331kArts & Culture$176kEnvironment$116kPublic Benefit$97kHealth$88kEducation$68kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 8 grants below total $227,099 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $707,209 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $480,110 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $117k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Homer Cycling Club$100,000
Homer Community Food Pantry$25,500
Kachemak Nordic Ski Club$25,220
Homer OPUS$25,000
Paul Banks Elementary PTA$16,000
Individual grant recipient$14,960
South Peninsula Hospital$10,451
Kachemak Bay Family Planning$9,968
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $70k → 11%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $51k → 11%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $41k → 11%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $39k → 11%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $32k → 11%HOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $26k → 11%Homer Community Food Pantry: $26k → 11%Homer Community Food Pantry: $24k → 11%Homer Food Pantry: $18k → 11%HOMER SENIOR CITIZENS: $8k → 11%HOMER SENIOR CITIZENS: $5k → 11%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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 20 repeat orgs$311k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
14

Total granted

$1.0M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+10%

Still filing today

90%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES
    5× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +97%
  • HH
    HOMER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · $38k · revenue +84%
  • AP
    ANCHOR POINT FOOD PANTRY
    3× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +627%

Funded once

  • KS
    KACHEMAK SKI CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +24%
  • AP
    Anchor Point Public Librarygraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +83% · 32% of their budget

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
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
2
Katmai Conservancy

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…

Environment
3
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Kenai Alive

The mission of Kenai Alive! is to change lifestyle behaviors on the Kenai Peninsula. It is also involved and is taking the lead in developing a Health Prevention Network in Kenai.

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5
Kenai Senior Connection Inc

To provide support for the development,operation and enhancement of the senior citizen program in Kenai Alaska.

Human Services
6
Kenai Peninsula Homelessness Coalition

Providing housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Kenai Peninsula Shooting Association

We offer firearm education, training and safety to the local community.

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8
Kenai Peninsula Association of Realtors

To promote public relations and provide education for realtors

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9
Kodiak Maritime Museum

Exhibit Kodiak Maritime history

Arts & Culture
10
Humane Society of Kodiak

To prevent cruelty to animals

Animals
11
Greater Ketchikan Chamber Commerce

To encourage and assist in the continued development of existing business, education, and life in ketchikan.

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12
Alaska Association for Historic Pre

To educate the public about hisroric preservation and help restore and preserve historic sites.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homer Senior Citizens Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Anchor Point Food Pantry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomer Community ServicesKenai Peninsula Community O…Kenai Peninsula Recreation …Alaska Marine & Watershed C…Community Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number15%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr14%16%10–20yr22%23%20–35yr20%45%35–55yr17%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value15%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr14%22%10–20yr22%43%20–35yr20%26%35–55yr17%3%55yr+

The field is 15% 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 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
7%
36/523

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

28 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. 28 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HOMER CYCLING CLUB — $100,000 · OtherHOMER CYCLING CLUBCITY OF KACHEMAK — $96,829 · OtherCITY OF KACHEMAKHospice of Homer — $33,539 · OtherHospice of HomerCITY OF HOMER — $32,970 · OtherCITY OF HOMERKACHEMAK BAY BROADCASTING INC — $31,938 · OtherKACHEMAK BAY BROADCASTING INCHOMER COUNCIL ON THE ARTS — $29,078 · OtherHOMER COUNCIL ON THE ARTSKACHEMAK SKI CLUB — $25,000 · OtherKACHEMAK BAY CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $24,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $17,434 · Other+13 more — $128,730 · Other+13 moreHOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $326,595 · Human ServicesHOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRYHomer Senior Citizens Incorporated — $13,509 · Human ServicesSOUTH PENINSULA ATHLETIC AND RECREATIONAL COMMITTEE — $91,981 · Recreation & SportsSOUTH PENINSUL…HOMER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $37,635 · Recreation & SportsHOMER HOCKEY A…Kachemak Nordic Ski Club Inc — $25,220 · Recreation & SportsKachemak Nordi…HOMER TRAILS ALLIANCE — $12,916 · Recreation & SportsHOMER TRAILS A…HOMER OPUS — $33,000 · Arts & CultureHOMER OPU…BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER — $30,464 · Arts & CultureBUNNELL S…HOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $29,222 · Arts & CultureHOMER SOC…PIER ONE THEATRE INC — $7,334 · Arts & CulturePIER ONE …KENAI PENINSULA ORCHESTRA INC — $5,075 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES — $42,605 · EnvironmentKACHEMAK HERITAGE LAND TRUST INC — $29,237 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $20,000 · EnvironmentANCHOR POINT FOOD PANTRY — $37,546 · Food & NutritionHOMER FARMERS MARKET INC — $23,200 · Food & NutritionKACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC — $34,579 · Health
Other$519,518Human Services$340,104Recreation & Sports$167,752Arts & Culture$105,095Environment$91,842Food & Nutrition$60,746Health$34,579

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHOMER COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY — $326,595 over 9y, 17% of budgetSOUTH PENINSULA ATHLETIC AND RECREATIONAL COMMITTEE — $91,981 over 3y, 11% of budgetCENTER FOR ALASKAN COASTAL STUDIES — $42,605 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHOMER HOCKEY ASSOCIATION — $37,635 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetANCHOR POINT FOOD PANTRY — $37,546 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetKACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC — $34,579 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetHospice of Homer — $33,539 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHOMER OPUS — $33,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetKACHEMAK BAY BROADCASTING INC — $31,938 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER — $30,464 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetKACHEMAK HERITAGE LAND TRUST INC — $29,237 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY — $29,222 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHOMER COUNCIL ON THE ARTS — $29,078 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetKACHEMAK BAY CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $24,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetHOMER FARMERS MARKET INC — $23,200 over 3y, 21% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE HOMER PUBLIC LIBRARY INC — $17,434 over 2y, 11% of budgetAnchor Point Public Library — $15,250 over 1y, 32% of budgetHomer Senior Citizens Incorporated — $13,509 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMER TRAILS ALLIANCE — $12,916 over 2y, 13% of budgetKENAI PENINSULA FAIR ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetPIER ONE THEATRE INC — $7,334 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA — $7,154 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetANCHOR POINT SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $6,700 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOMER ANIMAL FRIENDS — $6,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKENAI PENINSULA ORCHESTRA INC — $5,075 over 1y, 6.8% 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.

Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …Wh Francis FoundationAlaska Humanities For…The Quaker Hill Found…Richard L and Diane M…Community Foundation …M J Murdock Charitabl…Morgan Stanley Global…Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK46.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Wh Francis Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · The Quaker Hill Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Homer 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 39 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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