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Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation

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$215k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 18 grants below total $158,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $214,886 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $56,616 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$190k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chugiak Volunteer Fire & Resc$10,000
Girl Scouts of Alaska$10,000
Mat-Su Services for Children$10,000
Hatcher Pass Avalanche Center$10,000
Battle Dawgs$10,000
Connect Mat-Su$10,000
Great Alaska Boy Scouts$10,000
Denali Nordic Ski Club Inc$10,000
The Childrens Place$10,000
995 The Pass The Peoples$9,860
Boys & Girls Club of SC AK$8,265
Alaska Peace Officers Assoc$8,000
Palmer Volunteer Firemens$7,785
MatSu Youth Housing$7,500
Kids Kupboard$6,960
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 (FY23–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE INC OF EAGLE RIVER: $9k → 10%Kids Kupboard: $7k → 10%Battle Dawgs: $10k → 10%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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$139k · 7 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$139k
$238k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+3%

Still filing today

86%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • VH
    VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $28k · revenue -4%
  • HA
    HATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +268%
  • 9T
    995 The Pass The Peoples
    2× · 2023–2024 · $19k

Funded once

  • DF
    Denali Family Services
    one grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue +3%
  • FO
    Friends of Eagle River Nature Center
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • PA
    Palmer Arts Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +37%

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 Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.

Recreation & Sports
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Challenge Alaska

Challenge Alaska improves the lives of people with disabilities, their families, and the community through adaptive sports, therapeutic recreation, and education.

—
5
Mat-Su Health Services Inc

To provide comprehensive mental health and primary care services in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The Organization operates mental health-related clinics and a Primary Health Care Clinic.

Health
6
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
7
Kachemak Nordic Ski Club Inc

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

Recreation & Sports
8
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
9
Valley Transit

Provide public transportation to the matanuska-susitna community.

Public Benefit
10
Alaska Mountain Rescue Group

To finding and doing basic medical to people lost or have perished in the wilderness. Our goal is to bring people home safely!

—
11
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska State Fair Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Post 35. 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 backsteadyEarly Childhood Education S…Community Health & Social S…Faith-Based Community Minis…Fraternal Service Organizat…Alaska Cultural & Community…Alaska Community FoundationsRegional Community Developm…Alaska Winter Sports & Outd…
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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%6%<5yr12%8%5–10yr17%31%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr12%10%5–10yr17%28%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr16%14%35–55yr15%20%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
276/2,055

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

38 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. 38 of the 44 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
18/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

995 The Pass The Peoples — $19,361 · Other995 The Pass The PeoplesGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA — $19,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKATHE CHILDREN'S PLACE — $18,633 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACEChugiak Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company — $10,000 · OtherMat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc — $10,000 · OtherCITY OF WASILLA — $10,000 · OtherBIRCHWOOD CAMP OF THE ALASKA UNITED METHODIST CONFERENCE INC — $10,000 · OtherMAT-SU 2024 ARCTIC WINTER GAMES HOS — $10,000 · Other610 Great Alaska Council — $10,000 · OtherCHUGIAK DOG MUSHERS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · OtherCCS Early Learning — $10,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $10,000 · OtherAccess Alaska Inc — $8,540 · OtherALASKA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 · OtherBEACON HILL — $10,000 · OtherThe Last Frontier Honor Flight — $10,000 · OtherThe August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs — $10,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska — $8,265 · Other+5 more — $35,414 · Other+5 moreVALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION — $27,500 · HealthVALLEY HOSPITA…Denali Family Services — $14,415 · HealthDenali Family …Set Free Alaska Inc — $10,000 · HealthSet Free Alask…HEARTREACH CENTER INC — $10,000 · HealthHEARTREACH CEN…HATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsHATCHER ALPI…Denali Nordic Ski Club Inc — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsDenali Nordi…ALASKA STATE FAIR INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsALASKA STATE…Matsu Ski Club — $7,973 · Recreation & SportsMatsu Ski Cl…ME-2-WE INC — $6,414 · Recreation & SportsME-2-WE INCCURRY RIDGE RIDERS INC — $16,471 · EnvironmentCURRY RIDGE…Friends of Eagle River Nature Center — $10,000 · EnvironmentFriends of …VALLEY COMMUNITY FOR RECYCLING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY COMM…THE GREAT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE GREAT L…Battle Dawgs — $10,000 · Human ServicesALASKA'S HEALING HEARTS — $10,000 · Human ServicesLOVE INC OF EAGLE RIVER — $8,760 · Human ServicesKids Kupboard — $6,960 · Human ServicesPalmer Arts Council — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePalmer Museum of History and Art — $8,400 · Arts & CultureENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY — $7,000 · Arts & CultureHATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC — $17,559 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$237,213Health$61,915Recreation & Sports$54,387Environment$46,471Human Services$35,720Arts & Culture$25,400Public Safety & Disaster$17,559

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE — $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA — $19,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE — $18,633 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHATCHER PASS AVALANCHE CENTER INC — $17,559 over 2y, 11% of budgetCURRY RIDGE RIDERS INC — $16,471 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetDenali Family Services — $14,415 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Eagle River Nature Center — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBattle Dawgs — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDenali Nordic Ski Club Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetThe Last Frontier Honor Flight — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetALASKA STATE FAIR INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSet Free Alaska Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTREACH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMAT-SU 2024 ARCTIC WINTER GAMES HOS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVALLEY COMMUNITY FOR RECYCLING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget610 Great Alaska Council — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCCS Early Learning — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA'S HEALING HEARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE GREAT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEACON HILL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLOVE INC OF EAGLE RIVER — $8,760 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetAccess Alaska Inc — $8,540 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalmer Museum of History and Art — $8,400 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska — $8,265 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA PEACE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC — $8,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetMatsu Ski Club — $7,973 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENGINE 557 RESTORATION COMPANY — $7,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKids Kupboard — $6,960 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVALLEY CHARITIES INC — $6,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 35 — $6,700 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPalmer Little League — $6,666 over 1y, 5.8% 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 FoundationValley Hospital Assoc…The Alaska Community …Mta Foundation IncUnited Way of Matanus…Mat-Su Trails & Parks…Richard L and Diane M…Alaska Children's Tru…M J Murdock Charitabl…Jim and Vicki Jansen …Global Credit Union F…United Way of Anchora…
Rasmuson FoundationAK67.4× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · United Way of Matanuska-Susitna Borough · Mat-Su Trails & Parks Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation · Global Credit Union Foundation · United Way of Anchorage

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 Matanuska Electric Association Charitable 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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