· Private foundation
Rasmuson Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k178 grants · $426k
- $10k–50k67 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+29 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| FAIRBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES | $1,000,000 |
| THE ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ALASKA STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS | $750,000 |
| THE FORAKER GROUP | $600,000 |
| RESIDENTIAL YOUTH CARE INC | $600,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| JUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| MUSEUMS ALASKA INC | $448,350 |
| RAVEN RADIO KCAW COASTALASKA | $400,000 |
| ALASKA TRAILS | $375,200 |
| ALASKA COALITION ON HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS | $360,000 |
| GIRDWOOD INC | $350,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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 Rasmuson 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
653 repeat relationships — 170 still active in FY2024, 483 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AMAnchorage Museum Association4× · 2017–2020 · $6.8M · revenue +23% · 30% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +17%
- APANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +45% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- PHPROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES WASHINGTONone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- NMNATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIANone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
- UHUNITED HUMAN SERVICES OF SOUTHEAST ALASKAone grant, 2021 · $515k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
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…
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…
To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…
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…
Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Robert Aqqaluk Newlin Sr Memorial Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
854 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. 854 of the 1,550 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Anchorage Museum Association ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORAKER GROUP ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUMS ALASKA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ↗
- Who funds JUNEAU HOUSING FIRST COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds Southcentral Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tanana Chiefs Conference ↗
- Who funds Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Anchorage Community Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Set Free Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE KENAI PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HUMANITIES FORUM ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Atwood Foundation Inc · Alaska Humanities Forum · The Carr Foundation Inc · Alaska Children's Trust · The Usibelli Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · Juneau Community Foundation · United Way of Anchorage · The CIRI Foundation
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 Rasmuson 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.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
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.