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Providence Alaska Foundation

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$13M
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 FY2017–2024.

Health$48MHuman Services$4.5MHousing & Shelter$4.1MPhilanthropy$800kFood & Nutrition$747kEducation$661kRecreation & Sports$188kCommunity Improvement$183kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $13,287,913 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,746,999 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,459,086 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 $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $250k+1 grant · $13M
$13,282,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON$13,282,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION$5,913
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 (FY17–21, $6.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES (CSS): $1.4M → 10%VALDEZ FOOD BANK & EMERGENCY SERVICES: $43k → 7%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1.2M → 10%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $1.0M → 10%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AND FOOD BANK OF VALDEZ: $34k → 7%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $925k → 10%NEW LIFE DEVELOPMENT INC: $45k → 22%VALDEZ FOODBANK & EMERGENCY SERVICES: $33k → 7%KODIAK BAPTIST MISSION: $50k → 8%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $440k → 10%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $30k → 7%ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $25k → 22%ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: $30k → 7%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF ALASKA: $15k → 22%SEWARD AREA HOSPICE: $32k → 11%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC: $25k → 7%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: $25k → 7%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%NEW LIFE DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 10%ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: $23k → 7%SENIOR CITIZEN'S OF KODIAK: $27k → 8%NEW LIFE DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 10%CONNECTING TIES: $22k → 7%SENIOR CITIZENS OF KODIAK INC: $26k → 8%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 7%SENIOR CITIZENS OF KODIAK: $19k → 8%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $15k → 7%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 7%COPPER RIVER BASIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $11k → 7%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $10k → 7%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $200k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $200k → 10%ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC: $150k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $115k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $100k → 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.

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 9% of Providence Alaska 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.

Providence Alaska 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 28 repeat orgs$935k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
24

Total granted

$58M
$935k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • PH
    PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · $47M · revenue +38%
  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    5× · 2017–2021 · $5.0M · revenue +226%
  • AC
    Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness
    4× · 2018–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +475% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • AW
    ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue +15%
  • TF
    THE FORAKER GROUP
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -21%
  • SN
    SULTANA NEW VENTURES LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k

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 Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
2
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
3
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
4
Alaska Community Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
5
Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web

To operate an engagement center which provides peer support, resources and consumer directed programs to help mental health consumers, homeless persons and those recovering from substance abuse.

Health
6
Akeela Inc prv known as Akeela Treatment Services

To provide comprehensive behavioral health services including mental health, rehabilitative, clinical and prevention services to Alaskans, through the operation of substance use disorder residential and outpatient treatment programs,…

Health
7
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
8
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…

Health
9
Set Free Alaska Inc

Set Free Alaska, Inc. is a nonprofit corporation established as a faith driven prevention and treatment center that provides services to the Matanuska-Susitna Valley community in the area of substance abuse and other related addictions…

Health
10
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
11
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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12
Arctic Access Inc

Our Mission is to provide services and opportunities for elders and people with disabilities to remain in the home and village of their choice, and to be active as possible with their families and communities.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaskan Aids Assistance Association and the most unlike its peers is New Life Development Inc. 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 backsteadyChristian Mission & Ministr…Alaska Community Organizati…Alaska Fisheries & Watershe…Early Childhood Development…Alaska Community Organizati…Alaska Native Advocacy & Se…Senior Services CentersCommunity Health and Suppor…
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 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%4%5–10yr15%21%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr19%38%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr15%3%10–20yr18%83%20–35yr19%5%35–55yr16%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/53
the rest of the field
11%
255/2,258

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

46 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. 46 of the 53 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON — $46,990,057 · HealthPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON+4 more — $540,000 · HealthCatholic Social Services — $4,990,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Socia…Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness — $1,200,000 · Human ServicesAnchorage Coal…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $615,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE…+14 more — $915,012 · Human Services+14 moreUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA — $424,500 · OtherSeaview Community Services — $246,453 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $175,663 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $100,000 · OtherSULTANA NEW VENTURES LLC — $100,000 · OtherRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $332,500 · OtherALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $175,000 · OtherSEWARD PREVENTION COALITION — $105,000 · Other+14 more — $448,847 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE — $865,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FORAKER GROUP — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $349,676 · EducationAlaska Literacy Program Inc — $225,000 · EducationFood Bank of Alaska — $365,065 · Food & NutritionDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $46,000 · Food & NutritionHe Will Provide Inc — $45,245 · Food & NutritionBeans Cafe Inc — $364,000 · Housing & ShelterBrother Francis Shelter Kodiak — $60,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$47,530,057Human Services$7,720,012Other$2,107,963Philanthropy$965,000Education$574,676Food & Nutrition$456,310Housing & Shelter$424,000

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES - WASHINGTON — $46,990,057 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Social Services — $4,990,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetAnchorage Coalition to End Homelessness — $1,200,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE — $865,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $615,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc — $364,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION — $349,676 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM — $332,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $300,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSeaview Community Services — $246,453 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetHospice and Palliative Care-Ko — $185,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC — $175,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEW LIFE DEVELOPMENT INC — $145,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez — $109,983 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHE FORAKER GROUP — $100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center — $90,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAdvocates for Victims of Violence Inc — $77,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS OF KODIAK INC — $72,516 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetStepping Stones Learning Center — $68,505 over 2y, 12% of budgetVALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC — $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSound Wellness Alliance Network — $58,695 over 2y, 47% of budgetConnections To Care Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetKODIAK ISLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — $52,710 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAlaska Black Caucus — $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDOWNTOWN SOUP KITCHEN INC — $46,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHe Will Provide Inc — $45,245 over 1y, 30% of budgetSEWARD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAccess Alaska Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSEWARD AREA HOSPICE INC — $31,610 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTING TIES INC — $22,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYWCA ALASKA — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANCHORAGE SPORTSPLEX INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCopper River Basin Child Advocacy Center — $11,403 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Providence Health & S…The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationUnited Way of Anchora…Valley Hospital Assoc…The Carr Foundation I…Alaska Children's Tru…Richard L and Diane M…Valdez United WaySwanson Family Founda…M J Murdock Charitabl…Food Bank of Alaska
Providence Health & Services - WashingtonWA71.1× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Providence Health & Services - Washington · The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Children's Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Valdez United Way · Swanson Family Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Food Bank of Alaska

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 Providence Alaska 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report 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.

    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 53 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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