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Skaggs Foundation
Its FY2020 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 FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT | $63,217 |
| SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER | $7,000 |
| ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST | $5,000 |
| SOUTHEAST AK CONSERVATION COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| SITKA LOCAL FOODS NETWORK | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- AAALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC3× · 2017–2019 · $124k · revenue +15%
- ASALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST4× · 2017–2020 · $65k · revenue +684%
Earth Island Institute Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- TITIDELINES INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +34%
- SSEABANKone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF ALASKAone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
SEACC's mission is to protect the special places of the world's largest temperate rainforest, promote conservation, and advocate for sustainability in human use of natural resources. Inspired by the land, wildlife, cultures, and…
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…
To preserve and promote the events, stories, and artifacts of the human history of the sitka, alaska area for the inspiration, education and benefit of current and future generations.
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo…
The southeast alaska land trust (seal trust) collaborates with communities, individuals, and organizations throughout southeast alaska to help ensure that highly valued habitat, recreation, open space, and cultural and historic areas…
The alaska sealife center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of alaska's marine ecosystems.
The sitka center for art and ecology champions access to art and nature for all. we believe that integrating the arts with the sciences is essential for restoring balance in our relationship with the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sitka Sound Science Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynn Canal Conservation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 27 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
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 SITKA FINE ARTS ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds ALASKA ARTS SOUTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds TIDELINES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ALASKA SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES TRUST ↗
- Who funds SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COOK INLETKEEPER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds SITKA SOUND SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA DISCOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds LYNN CANAL CONSERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH INC ↗
- Who funds Eyak Preservation Council dba Cultural Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds Cook Inlet Native Head Start ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC SEED ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SITKA MARITIME HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
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: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Sitka Ak Permanent Charit Tr-Main · Alaska Conservation Foundation · Seattle Children's Hospital · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Skaggs 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.
- Ecotrust — 14% 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.
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