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· Public charity

Sealaska Heritage Institute

To protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural, social, political and economic traditions for the tlingit, haida and tsimshian tribes of southeast alaska natives.

$4.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.4M
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.

Education$12MArts & Culture$703kCivil Rights$460kHuman Services$252kPhilanthropy$30kCommunity Improvement$15kRecreation & Sports$10kPublic Benefit$10k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $3,463,498, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,769,384 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,305,886 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

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $246k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$107,421
Median grant
1
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT$1,400,839
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST$1,006,741
SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT$345,588
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER$319,309
KETCHIKAN INDIAN COMMUNITY$138,348
SITKA TRIBE OF ALASKA$107,421
KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH SCHOOL$45,513
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - ANCHORAGE$43,200
KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$26,539
HUNA HERITAGE FOUNDATION$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - FAIRBANKS$10,000
CRAIG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $346k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1.6M → 8%KETCHIKAN INDIAN COMMUNITY: $138k → 9%ALASKA NATIVE HERITAGE CENTER INC: $18k → 10%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $84k → 15%CHATHAM SCHOOL DISTRICT: $18k → 18%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $276k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1.4M → 8%KETCHIKAN INDIAN COMMUNITY: $114k → 9%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $52k → 15%SITKA TRIBE OF ALASKA: $211k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $1.0M → 8%KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH SCHOOL: $46k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - ANCHORAGE: $43k → 10%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $47k → 15%HOONAH CITY SCHOOLS: $12k → 18%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $159k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $686k → 8%KETCHIKAN GATEWAY BOROUGH SCHOOL: $30k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA - ANCHORAGE: $35k → 10%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $46k → 15%SITKA TRIBE OF ALASKA: $142k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $638k → 8%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $31k → 15%SITKA TRIBE OF ALASKA: $107k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $622k → 8%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $79k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $618k → 8%KLAWOCK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27k → 15%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $64k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $522k → 8%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $64k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $504k → 8%CRAIG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 15%SITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $29k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $504k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $457k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $444k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $323k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $319k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $296k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $284k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $269k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST: $223k → 8%JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $67k → 8%SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $42k → 8%HUNA HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%SPRUCE ROOT INC: $15k → 8%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 17 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$13M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+812%

Still filing today

18%
14%

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
EducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • JS
    JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $5.1M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.6M
  • SR
    SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • C
    CCTHITA
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • SR
    SPRUCE ROOT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +812%
  • HC
    HOONAH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICT: $5,063,777 · OtherJUNEAU SCHOOL DISTRICTUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $3,627,076 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKASITKA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,016,404 · OtherSITKA SCHOOL DISTRICTSITKA TRIBE OF ALASKA: $460,359 · Other+16 more: $855,787 · Other+16 moreSOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $2,270,488 · EducationSOUTHEAST REGIONAL …Huna Heritage Foundation: $30,000 · PhilanthropyAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $27,000 · Arts & CultureSPRUCE ROOT INC: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$11,023,403Education$2,270,488Philanthropy$30,000Arts & Culture$27,000Community Improvement$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $2,270,488 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetHuna Heritage Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $27,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPRUCE ROOT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds SOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Huna Heritage Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPRUCE ROOT INC ↗

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.

Association of Alaska…The Alaska Community …First Nations Develop…Rasmuson FoundationAlaska Conservation F…New Venture FundJuneau Community Foun…Alaska Children's Tru…Alaska Native Tribal …Seattle Children's Ho…National Forest Found…
Association of Alaska School BoardsAK26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Alaska School Boards · The Alaska Community Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Rasmuson Foundation · Alaska Conservation Foundation · New Venture Fund · Juneau Community Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium · Seattle Children's Hospital · National Forest Foundation

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 Sealaska Heritage Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sealaska Heritage Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    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 24 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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