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Igloo #4 Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$119kEducation$108kHuman Services$102kRecreation & Sports$19kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$700Other$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$695k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIONEER MEMORIAL PARK INC$10,250
VARIOUS RECIPIENTS$8,000
THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME$5,000
IGLOO #4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA$4,082
IGLOO #8 PIONEERS OF ALASKA$2,171
MEALS ON WHEELS - FAIRBANKS SENIOR CENTER$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FAIRBANKS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY$1,000
SITKA PIONEER HOME$700
PALMER PIONEER HOME$700
KETCHIKAN PIONEER HOME$700
JUNEAU PIONEER HOME$700
ANCHORAGE PIONEER HOME$700
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%CORDOVA PIONEER HALL: $5k → 7%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $20k → 8%MEN'S IGLOO 14 KETCHIKAN: $4k → 9%EAGLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $3k → 13%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $8k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $18k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $7k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $14k → 8%PIONEER PARK: $7k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $14k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $6k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $12k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $6k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $11k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $6k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $11k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $5k → 21%PIONEER MEMORIAL PARK INC: $10k → 8%VARIOUS: $5k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $9k → 8%PIONEER PARK: $5k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $8k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $5k → 21%THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $5k → 21%KITTY HENSLEY HOUSE: $5k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS: $5k → 21%IGLOO #4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $4k → 8%VARIOUS: $5k → 21%VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $4k → 8%FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $4k → 21%IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $4k → 8%VARIOUS: $4k → 21%IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $3k → 8%VARIOUS: $4k → 21%IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%PIONEER PARK: $3k → 21%IGLOO 8 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 21%IGLOO 8 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%PIONEER PARK: $3k → 21%IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%TANANA VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM: $3k → 21%IGLOO #8 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 21%IGLOO 8 PIONEERS OF ALASKA: $2k → 8%PIONEER PARK: $3k → 21%VARIOUS: $2k → 21%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$337k · 15 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$337k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+731%

Still filing today

7%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 & CultureHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VR
    VARIOUS RECIPIENTS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k
  • FP
    FAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k
  • I4
    IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • MI
    MEN'S IGLOO 14 KETCHIKAN
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • TV
    TANANA VALLEY RAILROAD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS RECIPIENTS: $123,254 · OtherVARIOUS RECIPIENTSFAIRBANKS PIONEER HOME: $51,490 · OtherFAIRBANKS PIONEER HOMEIGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA INC: $37,812 · OtherIGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA INCIndividual grant recipient: $23,914 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVARIOUS: $22,260 · OtherVARIOUSFRIENDS OF TANANA VALLEY RAILROAD: $16,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS: $15,000 · Other+17 more: $67,200 · Other+17 moreKITTY HENSLEY HOUSE: $11,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 · HealthFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $650 · Food & Nutrition
Other$356,930Arts & Culture$11,000Health$5,000Food & Nutrition$650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA INC: $37,812 over 9y, 14% of budgetKITTY HENSLEY HOUSE: $11,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetTANANA YUKON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $650 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds IGLOO 4 PIONEERS OF ALASKA INC ↗
  • Who funds KITTY HENSLEY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER MEMORIAL PARK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TANANA YUKON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Bill Stroecker FoundationAK13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Igloo #4 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Igloo #4 Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 27 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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