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MEWebber Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$794k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$132k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Health$463kEducation$365kHuman Services$322kPhilanthropy$287kAnimals$114kRecreation & Sports$98kEnvironment$95kArts & Culture$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $352k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $362k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$132,000
BEACON HILL$70,000
ALASKA FAMILY COUNCIL$60,000
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
ALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE$30,000
ANCHORAGE CONCERT ASSOCIATION INC$27,000
CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES$25,000
ACCESS ALASKA INC$20,000
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$20,000
SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE S$20,000
ALASKA SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMAL$15,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED$15,000
ALASKA CHILDRENS SERVICES INC$15,000
CHALLENGE ALASKA$15,000
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 (FY21–24, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $10k → 10%ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $5k → 10%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA INC: $5k → 22%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA INC: $5k → 22%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA INC: $5k → 22%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA INC: $5k → 22%NEW HOPE ON THE LAST FRONTIER: $20k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
WA
CA
CO
NE
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of MEWebber Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

MEWebber Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 29 repeat orgs$192k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$1.6M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • OD
    OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +60%
  • AA
    ALPINE ALTERNATIVES INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $240k · revenue +32% · 67% of their budget
  • BH
    BEACON HILL
    4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • NH
    New Hope on the Last Frontier
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +14%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • AZ
    ALASKA ZOO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +2%

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 Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
2
Alaska Childrens Alliance

Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…

Crime & Legal
3
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
4
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

The Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…

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5
Alaska Trails

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

Recreation & Sports
6
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
7
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
8
Alaska Public Interest Research Group

Consumer Advocacy

Public Benefit
9
Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education
10
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
11
Alaska Missions & Retreats

The mission of the Alaska Missions and Retreats is to transform hearts and lives with the hope of Christ Jesus.

Religion
12
Alaska Power Association

Promote and encourage cooperation among Alaska electric utilities and their customers while promoting the operation of electrical plants adequate for the needs of Alaskan consumers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsFood Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Health Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Development ServicesDance Arts OrganizationsEquine Therapy ProgramsSchool District Foundations
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 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr11%9%5–10yr17%17%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr18%34%35–55yr17%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr11%1%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr18%26%35–55yr17%25%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/63
the rest of the field
10%
516/4,918

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.

05the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 65 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALPINE ALTERNATIVES INC — $240,000 · OtherALPINE ALTERNATIVES INCChallenge Alaska — $40,000 · OtherANCHORAGE RESCUE MISSION — $35,000 · OtherAccess Alaska Inc — $30,000 · OtherALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $80,000 · OtherALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGEAnchorage Concert Association Inc — $62,000 · OtherAnchorage Concert Association IncANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $30,000 · OtherCompassion International Incorporated — $45,000 · OtherALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $45,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $35,000 · Other+28 more — $200,000 · Other+28 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $283,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED C…+1 more — $3,500 · PhilanthropyOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationOLD DOMINION UN…PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSI…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationBEACON HILL — $175,000 · Housing & ShelterBEACON HI…HEARTREACH CENTER INC — $55,000 · HealthCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $50,000 · HealthCrisis Pregnancy Center — $35,000 · HealthALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE — $65,000 · AnimalsALASKA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $30,000 · AnimalsALASKA RURAL VETERINARY OUTREACH INC — $12,000 · AnimalsALASKA ZOO — $10,000 · AnimalsALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $10,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF PETS INC — $7,500 · Animals+5 more — $9,000 · AnimalsAlaska Family Council — $71,500 · Human ServicesNew Hope on the Last Frontier — $20,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA — $20,000 · Human ServicesANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC — $15,000 · Human Services
Other$882,000Philanthropy$286,500Education$275,000Housing & Shelter$175,000Health$162,500Animals$143,500Human Services$126,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $283,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALPINE ALTERNATIVES INC — $240,000 over 2y, 67% of budgetBEACON HILL — $175,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetALASKA CHRISTIAN COLLEGE — $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAlaska Family Council — $71,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetSEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAnchorage Concert Association Inc — $62,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTREACH CENTER INC — $55,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChallenge Alaska — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Center — $35,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAccess Alaska Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALASKA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALASKA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNew Hope on the Last Frontier — $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetALASKA RURAL VETERINARY OUTREACH INC — $12,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetSTONE SOUP GROUP — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALASKA ZOO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAMI Alaska — $10,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASSIONATE HOPE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA WILDLIFE CONSERVATION CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PETS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALASKA CHAMBER SINGERS — $6,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetOur Lady of the Rosary Alaska — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew Civil Liberties Alliance — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANCHOR-AGE CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNordic Skiing Association of Anchorage — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOTHAWIRA INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTattered Paws and Golden Hearts Rescue — $4,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Alaska Community Foundation — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEquine Assisted Therapy Alaska — $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMusk Ox Development Corporation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationRichard L and Diane M…The Carr Foundation I…Atwood Foundation IncValley Hospital Assoc…United Way of Anchora…M J Murdock Charitabl…Anchorage Mayors Char…Frances & David Rose …Providence Alaska Fou…10 Chefs Inc
The Alaska Community FoundationAK75.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · 10 Chefs Inc

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 MEWebber 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%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.

    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 65 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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