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Rural Alaska Community Action Program

To empower low-income alaskans through advocacy, education, affordable housing and direct services that respect our unique values and cultures.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2021–2024.

Health$788kEducation$630kHousing & Shelter$518kFood & Nutrition$438kHuman Services$379kEnvironment$295kEmployment$145kYouth Development$88kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $634k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $2.8M
$57,231
Median grant
1
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM$203,863
SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER$159,032
ALASKA COALITION ON HOUSING$158,224
COUNCIL OF ATHABASCAN TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS$150,000
ALASKA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH$145,455
ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF SAXMAN$132,720
KACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC$130,327
HILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER$130,007
BETHEL WINTER HOUSE$127,523
ANNETTE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT$125,708
BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION$109,646
ISLAND GRAD PROJECT$100,000
DENALI PRESCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER$94,761
VILLAGE OF SOLOMON$93,000
CLARKS POINT VILLAGE COUNCIL-VILLAGE OF CLARKS POINT$88,356
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 (FY24–24, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DENALI PRESCHOOL AND LEARNING CENTER: $95k → 7%MANIILAQ ASSOCIATION: $58k → 20%POLYNESIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALASKA: $18k → 10%HILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER: $130k → 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.

03Your 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.

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Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
3
Pediatric Resource Center of Alaska
Human Services
4
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
5
Qutekcak Native Tribe

Qutekcak native Tribe was created to promote the unity, self-determination and empowerment on the native population residing in Seward, Alaska and the surrounding areas.

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6
Seaview Community Services

Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.

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7
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
8
Alaska Housing Inititatives Inc

The Organization owns and operates affordable housing untis in Anchorage, Alaska. The units are intended for rental to low-income individuals and families.

Housing & Shelter
9
Alaska Community Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
10
Association of Alaska Housing Authorities

Provide training and information to housing authority employees and representatives throughout the state of alaska.

Housing & Shelter
11
Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium

Yukon-Koyukuk Elder Assisted Living Consortium (YKEALC), a nonprofit organization, was incorporated in 2004 with the purpose to provide and maintain residential facilities in Galena, Alaska, that are specifically designed to meet the needs…

Housing & Shelter
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and the most unlike its peers is Big Lake Neighborhood Closet. 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 backsteadyAlaska Native Community Hea…Animal Rescue and Shelter S…Early Childhood Education S…Affordable Housing Developm…Behavioral Health & Disabil…Faith-Based Social ServicesSenior Community CentersCommunity Health CentersAlaska Fisheries & Land Con…Performing Arts Organizatio…
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 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr17%20%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr18%43%35–55yr16%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%17%5–10yr17%25%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr18%39%35–55yr16%0%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
11%
388/3,631

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.

04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
10/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Eastern Aleutian Tribes — $150,000 · OtherEastern Aleutian TribesORGANIZED VILLAGE OF SAXMAN — $132,720 · OtherORGANIZED VILLAGE OF SAXMANANNETTE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT — $125,708 · OtherANNETTE ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICTISLAND GRAD PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherISLAND GRAD PROJECTVILLAGE OF SOLOMON — $93,000 · OtherVILLAGE OF SOLOMONCLARKS POINT VILLAGE COUNCIL — $88,356 · OtherCLARKS POINT VILLAGE COUNCILTHE BREAD LINE INC — $87,895 · OtherTHE BREAD LINE INCCCS Early Learning — $72,602 · OtherNative Village of Kanatak — $72,450 · OtherIdentity Inc — $68,387 · OtherNATIVE VILLAGE OF SCAMMON BAY — $65,231 · OtherKAWERAK INC — $54,538 · Other+21 more — $452,271 · Other+21 moreALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM — $203,863 · HealthALASKA NATIVE TRIB…ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $145,455 · HealthANCHORAGE COMMUNIT…KACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC — $130,327 · HealthKACHEMAK BAY FAMIL…Sunshine Community Health Center Inc — $45,394 · HealthSunshine Community…Jamhi Health & Wellness Inc — $42,925 · HealthJamhi Health & Wel…HILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER — $130,007 · Human ServicesHILLCREST CHI…Early Learning Coalition — $94,761 · Human ServicesEarly Learnin…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $86,334 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUS…Maniilaq Association — $58,496 · Human ServicesManiilaq Asso…Big Lake Neighborhood Closet — $30,468 · Human ServicesBig Lake Neig…Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc — $17,840 · Human ServicesAlaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness — $158,224 · Housing & ShelterAlaska Coalit…BETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB — $127,523 · Housing & ShelterBETHEL WINTER…Brother Francis Shelter Kodiak — $85,209 · Housing & ShelterBrother Franc…MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING — $36,376 · Housing & ShelterMAT-SU YOUTH …SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC — $159,032 · EnvironmentTYONEK TRIBAL CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $36,224 · EnvironmentRENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT — $32,957 · EnvironmentKodiak KINDNESS Project — $80,706 · EducationAlaska Literacy Program Inc — $79,510 · EducationBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $109,646 · Philanthropy
Other$1,563,158Health$567,964Human Services$417,906Housing & Shelter$407,332Environment$228,213Education$160,216Philanthropy$109,646

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 budgetALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM — $203,863 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC — $159,032 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAlaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness — $158,224 over 1y, 22% of budgetANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $145,455 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKACHEMAK BAY FAMILY PLANNING CLINIC — $130,327 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetHILLCREST CHILDRENS CENTER — $130,007 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetBETHEL WINTER SHELTER LIONS CLUB — $127,523 over 1y, 25% of budgetBETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION — $109,646 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetEarly Learning Coalition — $94,761 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE BREAD LINE INC — $87,895 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA — $86,334 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBrother Francis Shelter Kodiak — $85,209 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKodiak KINDNESS Project — $80,706 over 1y, 40% of budgetAlaska Literacy Program Inc — $79,510 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCCS Early Learning — $72,602 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIdentity Inc — $68,387 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetManiilaq Association — $58,496 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAWERAK INC — $54,538 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC — $49,328 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSunshine Community Health Center Inc — $45,394 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJamhi Health & Wellness Inc — $42,925 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING — $36,376 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTYONEK TRIBAL CONSERVATION DISTRICT — $36,224 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT — $32,957 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBig Lake Neighborhood Closet — $30,468 over 1y, 89% of budgetAlaska Native Justice Center — $24,295 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER — $18,397 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetPolynesian Association of Alaska Inc — $17,840 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetCORDOVA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $17,288 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHospice of Homer — $15,780 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE — $10,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPT IN Kiana — $6,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP IN SERVING HUMANITY INCORPORATED — $5,304 over 1y, 4.9% 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.

The Alaska Community …Rasmuson FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…Alaska Native Tribal …Rural Alaska Communit…Food Bank of AlaskaRichard L and Diane M…Valley Hospital Assoc…First Nations Develop…Alaska Conservation F…Alaska Humanities For…M J Murdock Charitabl…
The Alaska Community FoundationAK78.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundation · Food Bank of Alaska · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · M J Murdock Charitable Trust

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 Rural Alaska Community Action Program 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%6%23%51%90%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
    8report 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 54 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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