· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD | $1,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| PREBYTERIAN HOUSE | $1,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKUAC FRIENDS GROUP2× · 2023–2025 · $33k · revenue +1%
- FDFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +9%
- FOFRIENDS OF CREAMERS FIELD5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKAone grant, 2022 · $32k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF AK FBKS FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $24k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKSone grant, 2021 · $14k
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marion G Weeks Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion G Weeks Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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