· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +40% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Spruce Root Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spruce Root Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
How this is measured
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