How much did RASMUSON FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of RASMUSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

ada-accessiblepcg behalfmallottcanvas pcgaward artlaboratorygroups

2019

poetryaward produceaward createphone systeminstallaward purchaseaward complete

2020

culture carescares actonline programmingtechnology onlineemergency anchoragecovid responsefellowship multidiscipline

2021

fellowship literaryupgrades statewideartist panelistpavilionfellowship craftscovidclinic construction

2022

wireless upgradesupgrades portagegrocery storestore constructionconstruct campuscampus cordovacivic

2023

digital equityfellowship awardaward runneraged youthconversionimprovements technologytank

2024

integrated homelessnesshomelessness responsepetter jahnsenresponse systemhousing renovationsequipment upgradepet scanner

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 295 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k175 grants · $420k
$10k–50k67 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k26 grants · $2.6M
$250k+27 grants · $12M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$845M

Total assets

Largest grants

ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$1,000,000
THE ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
FAIRBANKS NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES$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
CITY OF SOLDOTNA$450,000
MUSEUMS ALASKA INC$448,350
RAVEN RADIO KCAW COASTALASKA$400,000
ALASKA TRAILS$375,200
ALASKA COALITION ON HOUSING & HOMELESSNESS$360,000
ANCHORAGE COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS$350,000
GIRDWOOD INC$350,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $10.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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 6% 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.

RASMUSON 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$170M · 678 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

678 repeat relationships — 175 still active in FY2024, 503 since wound down; 58 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

678

858

Total granted

$170M

$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+42%

Still filing today

66%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

THE ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +198%
AM
ANCHORAGE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
4× · 2017–2020 · $6.8M · revenue +23% · 30% of their budget
TF
THE FORAKER GROUP
8× · 2017–2024 · $4.7M · revenue +26%

Funded once

PH
PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES WASHINGTON
one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
SI
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION - NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
one grant, 2018 · $1.7M
NM
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M

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.

Alaska Historical Publication Association

Education

Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative

Environment

Korean Cultural Center Alaska

The Korean Cultural Association of Alaska KCCA promotes sharing the cultural heritage of Korean and encouraging cross-cultural understanding through exchanging diverse cultural values to empower all people, build a bridge, and celebrate…

Arts & Culture

Anchorage Museum Foundation

To provide support to the anchorage musuem association for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.

Arts & Culture

Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska

The Outdoor Heritage Foundation of Alaska promotes the conservation and wise use of Alaskas natural resources through broad-based education initiatives designed to provide Alaskans the skills and knowledge to enjoy the outdoors in a safe,…

Environment

Alaska Solstice Search Dogs

Assd trains and deploys highly qualified and certified search dog teams to support and assist law enforcement and other government agencies in the search, rescue, and recovery of missing persons.

Public Safety & Disaster

Alaska Jewish Historical Museum &

Mission - a home for jewish history, art and culture in alaska.build cultural bridges that encourage diversity and tolerance through public education, exhibitions, lectures, films and videos; all of which tell the story of alaska's jewish…

Arts & Culture

Alaska Mining Hall of Fame Foundation

To honor mining individuals and inform the public of historical important moments in mining

Arts & Culture

Alaska Arctic Junior Ice Hockey

To foster national and/or international amateur sports competition within the meaning of 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.

Recreation & Sports

Juneau Douglas Ice Association

JDIA is a non-profit volunteer organization that provides a safe and fun learning environment so youths between the ages 4 and 18 can develop skills, character, confidence and self-esteem by participating in the sport of hockey.

Recreation & Sports

Veterans in Service to Alaskans

To assist disadvantaged united states military veterans and active duty personnel through financial and emotional support; to promote public awareness of their plight; to protect all inalienable rights and interests of the member and the…

Arts & Culture

Association of Alaska School Boards

The mission of the association of alaska school boards is to advocate for children and youth by assisting school boards in providing quality public education, focused on student achievement, through effective local governance.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museums Alaska Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gamers Sports Travel. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%7/880

the rest of the field

10%

3,586/36,769

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.

06the grantee network

773 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

288

Early backer (in before they grew)

740/773

Grantees still filing

556/773

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$95,524,999Philanthropy$32,201,267Arts & Culture$19,175,646Health$15,713,826Human Services$15,295,421Education$10,808,479Housing & Shelter$8,420,037

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.

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 FoundationAK289.5× affinity428 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · The Carr Foundation Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Alaska Children's Trust · Juneau Community Foundation · The Usibelli Foundation · The CIRI Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · United Way of Anchorage

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MUSEUMS ALASKA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +65% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 920097153 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MUSEUMS ALASKA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 95% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Rasmuson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rasmuson Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RASMUSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

773 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rasmuson Foundation?

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RASMUSON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

773 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rasmuson Foundation?

More from the funding graph