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Tanana Valley Youth Sports Foundation Inc at a glance

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Tanana Valley Youth Sports Foundation Inc

The organization was formed for the purpose of making distributions to other nonprofit organizations in order to promote, assist, develop, sponsor and supervise programs generally promoting youth sports within the fairbanks north star borough, and thereby support the fairbanks north star borough parks & recreation department.

$46k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2023.

Recreation & Sports$631kArts & Culture$75kYouth Development$25k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $45,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $46,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,000 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.
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALASKA GOLDPANNER BASEBALL INC$30,000
FRIENDS OF HOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS$15,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%FAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCER: $100k → 8%FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH - GROWDEN FIELD UPGRADES: $80k → 21%NORTHERN AREA AQUATICS: $55k → 8%FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH - GROWDEN FIELD UPGRADES: $70k → 21%HOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS: $45k → 8%FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH - CARLSON CENTER: $50k → 21%ROTARY OF FAIRBANKS CLUB DONOR ADVISED FUND (ROTARY FOUNDATION): $35k → 8%FAIRBANKS HOCKEY HALL OF FAME: $25k → 21%ROTARY OF FAIRBANKS CLUB DONOR ADVISED FUND (ROTARY FOUNDATION): $32k → 8%FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH - NORTH STAR ATHLETICS COMPLEX: $25k → 21%ALASKA GOLDPANNER BASEBALL INC: $30k → 8%FRIENDS OF HOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS: $15k → 8%GOLDEN HEART SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $15k → 8%ROTARY CLUB OF FAIRBNKS - SUNRISERS: $13k → 8%NORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS: $31k → 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
04Its field

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.

1
Alaska State Hockey Association Inc

Youth & adult hockey leagues, tournaments & camps promote youth hockey, develop and encourage sportmanship between all players for the betterment of the individuals physical & social well being.

Unclassified
2
Ak Firecrackers

National amateur sports (softball) competition

Recreation & Sports
3
Fairbank Rod and Gun Club

The betterment of its members through hunting, fishing, shooting activities while preserving wildlife habitat

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4
Fairbanks Junior Ice Dogs Inc

To promote youth sports in the fairbanks area.

Recreation & Sports
5
Fairbanks Curling Foundation Inc
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6
Fairbanks Tennis Association

To promote and support tennis programs in the Fairbanks area. To promote year-round tennis facilities and improve tennis facilities in the community for the public benefit. To foster national and international competition and develop…

Youth Development
7
Foothills Youth Hockey Association

To grow the game of hockey within our market that builds a family culture, welcoming of any and all players ages 4 to 18 years old.

Youth Development
8
Sno-King Amateur Hockey Association

To build and sustain the premier regional hockey program by providing quality education and training for the development and success of young people in hockey and life skills. we are building players for life!

—
9
Kodiak Hockey League

The mission of khl is to provide a safe, fun, competitive environment, with an emphasis on sportsmanship and teamwork, where hockey players of all ages can develop skills.

Recreation & Sports
10
Flagstaff Youth Hockey Association Inc

Promoting and conducting an amateur hockey association for children and youth.

Recreation & Sports
11
Nighthawks Youth Hockey Club

Youth hockey development

Recreation & Sports
12
Puget Sound Amateur Icesports Assn

Recreational Youth Hockey

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hockey Club Fairbanks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wellspring Revival Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGH: $225,000 · OtherFAIRBANKS NORTH STAR BOROUGHNORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS: $116,946 · OtherNORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKSNORTHERN AREA AQUATICS COMMITTEE INC: $55,000 · OtherNORTHERN AREA AQUATICS COMMITTEE INCWELLSPRING REVIVAL MINISTRIES: $25,000 · OtherWELLSPRING REVIVAL MINISTRIESGOLDEN HEART SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Other+1 more: $12,500 · OtherFAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCER: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCERHOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsHOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS INCAlaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsAlaska Goldpanner Baseball In…Friends of Hockey Club Fairbanks: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Hockey Club Fairba…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $67,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY…FAIRBANKS HOCKEY HALL OF FAME INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$449,446Recreation & Sports$190,000International$67,000Arts & Culture$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS: $116,946 over 2y, 20% of budgetFAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCER: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $67,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN AREA AQUATICS COMMITTEE INC: $55,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetHOCKEY CLUB FAIRBANKS INC: $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAlaska Goldpanner Baseball Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWELLSPRING REVIVAL MINISTRIES: $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetFriends of Hockey Club Fairbanks: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGOLDEN HEART SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRotary Club of Fairbanks - Sunrisers: $12,500 over 1y, 31% 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.

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.

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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 Tanana Valley Youth Sports Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tanana Valley Youth Sports Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Tanana Valley Youth Sports Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $44k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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