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Marion G Weeks Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KUAC FRIENDS GROUP | $18,800 |
| FAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY | $11,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,800 |
| FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES OF AK | $6,000 |
| FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION | $5,600 |
| NORDIC SKI CLUB | $5,600 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $5,200 |
| TANANA VALLEY SPORTSMENS FOUNDATION | $4,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,800 |
| FAIRBANKS ART ASSOCIATION | $2,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| PREBYTERIAN HOUSE | $1,600 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,600 |
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KFKUAC FRIENDS GROUP2× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +1%
- FDFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +9%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2022 · $32k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF AK FBKS FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $24k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKSone grant, 2021 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The purpose is to support all fairbanks north star borough public libraries, to enhance their operations, to encourage and support expansion of library buildings, facilities, and equipment, and to create, manage, and build an investment…
To promote youth hockey for the interior of Alaska for recreational hockey players of various ages.
To present, promote, and sponsor artistically and culturally diverse performing arts events and educational opportunities of the highest quality from stages around the world.
To promote and support tennis programs in the Fairbanks area. To promote year-round tennis facilities and improve tennis facilities in the community for the public benefit. To foster national and international competition and develop…
The betterment of its members through hunting, fishing, shooting activities while preserving wildlife habitat
The downtown association of fairbanks promotes, preserves and revitalizes downtown fairbanks through their downtown map guide, downtown member spotlights, quarterly newsletters, community interactive website, maintenance of the historic…
To promote youth sports in the fairbanks area.
provide community based entertainment through annual town celebration.
National amateur sports (softball) competition
Fairbanks shakespeare theater purpose is to expand, educate and diversify the audience for shakespearean and classic theatre in interior alaska, particularly among young people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency and the most unlike its peers is Wellspring Revival Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 58 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 FAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds KUAC FRIENDS GROUP ↗
- Who funds Tanana Valley Sportsmens Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS HEART OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD ↗
- Who funds INTERIOR YOUTH BASKETBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERIOR BASEBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp ↗
- Who funds LESLIE JOAN CAMPBELL FOUNDATION DBA LESLIE'S CHILDREN ↗
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: Rasmuson Foundation · The Usibelli Foundation · Bill Stroecker Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc · Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04 · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Marion G Weeks 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.
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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