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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $13,287,913, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,746,999 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,459,086 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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%ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST: $25k → 22%ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: $30k → 7%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF ALASKA: $15k → 22%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $30k → 7%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%SEWARD AREA HOSPICE: $32k → 11%KODIAK WOMEN'S RESOURCE & CRISIS CENTER: $30k → 8%ADVOCATES FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE: $25k → 7%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC: $25k → 7%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%VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER: $15k → 7%CONNECTIONS TO CARE: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 9% of Providence Alaska Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Providence Alaska Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
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.

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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
3
Alaska Community Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
4
Alaska Childrens Alliance

The Alaska Childrens Alliance strengthens Alaskas multidisciplinary response to child abuse by supporting, educating, and connecting professionals who work to protect children, promote healing for children and families, and advance…

Crime & Legal
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
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
11
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
12
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaskan Aids Assistance Association; 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.
05the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetNINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlaska Black Caucus: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Providence Alaska Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Providence Alaska Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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