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Pioneers of Alaska

To provide Charitable service to organizations and persons in the Nome, Alaska area.

$24k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2025
4
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2025
$18k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$38k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Pioneers of Alaska funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$18k33%
FY20234$20k50%
FY20223$26k67%
FY20211$10k100%
FY20201$7kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Youth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$17kReligion$10kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pioneers of Alaska$31,527517%
Nome Public Schools$21,0004n/a
Nome Community United Methodi$10,0001n/a
Nome Northstar Swim Team$7,5001n/a
Ketchikan Pioneer Way Association$5,00028%
Nome Community Center Inc$1,25010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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How do I get to Pioneers of Alaska?

Find your warmest path to Pioneers of Alaska 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.

About Pioneers of Alaska

How much does Pioneers of Alaska give?
Pioneers of Alaska reported 3 itemized grants totaling $17,750, out of $23,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Pioneers of Alaska fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Recreation & Sports (26%), Religion (16%).
Who are Pioneers of Alaska's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pioneers of Alaska ($32k), Nome Public Schools ($21k), Nome Community United Methodi ($10k).
Does Pioneers of Alaska fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Pioneers of Alaska based?
Pioneers of Alaska is based in AK.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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