· Public charity
Mat-Su Trails & Parks Foundation
To promote trails and parks in the Matanuska Susitna Borough
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alaska Trails | $168,815 |
| Individual grant recipient | $133,497 |
| Hatcher Alpine Xperience | $95,500 |
| Student Conservation Association | $62,332 |
| City of Houston | $50,000 |
| Willow Area Community Organization | $44,478 |
| City of Wasilla | $37,500 |
| Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center | $34,291 |
| Mat-Su Ski Club | $34,200 |
| Meadow Lakes Community Development | $25,500 |
| Valley Mountain Bikers and Hikers | $11,230 |
| Alaskans for Palmer Hay Flats | $10,234 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ATAlaska Trails6× · 2018–2025 · $348k · revenue +646%
- HAHATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE4× · 2020–2025 · $210k · revenue +588%
- MSMatsu Ski Club3× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +126% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- MSMatanuska Susitnone grant, 2024 · $92k
- MTMAT-SU TENNIS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $90k
- YFYOUTH FORUMWACOone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Maintain and groom over non-motorized trails in the Homer area for skiing, snowshoeing, and hiking. Sponsor ski events and facilitate programssuch as public school sports
To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.
Trail maintenance
Snowmobile trail grooming and maintenance.
Trail maintenance - department of natural resources
To maintain and operate a network of 75 Km of Nordic ski trails in the Superior National Forest in Tofte, Minnesota. The trail system is a major tourism draw in the winter.
Create and maintain a non motorized multi-use trail system that provides a place to experience mountain biking, hiking, cross country skiing, snowshoeing, trail running and more in a natural environment while providing the opportunity to…
Educating and organizing the Chugiak-Eagle River community to build, maintain and ride sustainable mountain bike trails.
To promote non-motorized trails along the Beartooth Front.
We are a trails and pathways organization. Designing, Building, and maintaining non-motorized trail systems for the benefit of the Alpine and North Lincoln County community.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matsu Ski Club and the most unlike its peers is Rotary International Club of Susitna. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 38 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 Alaska Trails ↗
- Who funds HATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds Valley Mountain Bikers and Hikers ↗
- Who funds Matsu Ski Club ↗
- Who funds Willow Area Community Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STATE PARKS MAT SU ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CLUB OF SUSITNA ↗
- Who funds HATCHER PASS SNOW RIDERS ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CURRY RIDGE RIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Louise Snowmachine Club Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU 2024 ARCTIC WINTER GAMES HOS ↗
- Who funds Denali Nordic Ski Club Inc ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Susitna Dam Alternatives ↗
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 · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation · 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 Mat-Su Trails & Parks 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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