· Public charity
Spruce Root Inc
See schedule oto assist southeast alaskas people, businesses, and communities in reaching long-term economic, social, and environmental resilience, and improve economic conditions in southeast alaska communities through innovation, sustainability and collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $658,529 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $907,991 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $249,462 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $419k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $134,000 |
| ECOTRUST | $89,080 |
| HOONAH INDIAN ASSOCIATION | $87,000 |
| CENTRAL COUNCIL OF TLINGIT & HAIDA INDIAN TRIBES OF ALASKA (TLINGIT & HAIDA | $55,000 |
| KLAWOCK COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION (KCA) | $53,468 |
| AWARE | $47,347 |
| RENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT | $42,000 |
| KOOTZNOOWOO INCORPORATED | $42,000 |
| SKAGWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $42,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ALASKA CHAPTER | $41,933 |
| SHAAN SEET | $18,701 |
| SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE | $6,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- SCSITKA CONSERVATION SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $518k · revenue +47%
ECOTRUST3× · 2022–2024 · $177k · revenue +63%- RERENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT4× · 2021–2024 · $144k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- OVORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KASAANone grant, 2020 · $50k
- JKJilkaat Kwaan Heritage Centergraduatedone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +40%
- CCCENTRAL COUNCIL OF TLINGIT & HAIDAone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
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…
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…
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
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…
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…
Our organization supports community-based approaches to social, economic and environmental sustainability in Southeast Alaska.
The core purpose of AITRC is "traditional resource stewardship." The core values are "survival; protect and enhance subsistence resources; and partnerships." The vision statement is "our way of life and cultural tradition is unified and…
Protecting tribal land and waterways for future generations
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.
Western alaska fisheries support and restoration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
- Who funds RENEWABLE ENERGY ALASKA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AWARE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YAKUTAT TLINGIT TRIBE NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds SKAGWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ALASKA WATERSHED COALITION ↗
- Who funds Jilkaat Kwaan Heritage Center ↗
- Who funds The Southeast Conference ↗
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 · Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples Inc · The Alaska Community Foundation · Alaska Conservation Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · 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 Spruce Root Inc 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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