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The Afognak Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
50
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$133k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Environment$2.1MArts & Culture$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.0MEducation$685kHuman Services$520kAnimals$513kHealth$375kHousing & Shelter$300kOther$0
02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k32 grants · $801k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
$30,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Seacology$132,575
Yellowstone Forever$125,000
Blessings in a Backpack$125,000
Remote Area Medical$105,000
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$100,000
World Wildlife Fund Inc$100,000
NourishMKE Inc$85,000
Acts Community Development Corp (dba Acts Housing)$60,000
Climb$60,000
Community Musicworks$50,000
Buzzards Bay Coalition Inc$50,000
Room To Read$50,000
National Audubon Society$50,000
Reach Out and Read Inc$50,000
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA of Greater Boston: $45k → 16%YMCA of Greater Boston: $20k → 16%YMCA of Greater Boston: $20k → 16%Innocence Project: $20k → 17%Innocence Project: $20k → 17%United Methodist Children's Services of Wisconsin Inc: $10k → 17%Innocence Project: $20k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
ME
VT
WA
MT
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
CT
RI
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.6M · 73 repeat orgs$985k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -76% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
31

Total granted

$7.6M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-76%

Still filing today

58%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • BI
    BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +69% · 30% of their budget
  • RA
    REMOTE AREA MEDICAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $315k · revenue +109%
  • YF
    YELLOWSTONE FOREVER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • FC
    Friends Community Ministries
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • AC
    ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $60k
  • BY
    BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORECHESTRA
    one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture
4
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

6
Museum of Wisconsin Art Inc

The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…

Arts & Culture
7
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra Inc

Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
8
The Maritime Aquarium At Norwalk Inc

The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.

Arts & Culture
9
Minnesota Orchestral Association

The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.

Arts & Culture
10
Wisconsin Conservatory of Music Inc

Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.

Arts & Culture
11
Great Lakes Center for the Arts

The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
12
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Antonio Philharmonic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Arts CentersYouth Sports ProgramsPregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…Elementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%35%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,710

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 110 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
30/50
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SEACOLOGY — $397,725 · OtherSEACOLOGYGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $250,000 · OtherSEACOLOGY — $220,000 · OtherWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $200,000 · Other+76 more — $4,122,347 · Other+76 moreYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $310,000 · EnvironmentYELLOWSTONE …WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $300,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…Little Traverse Conservancy Inc — $150,000 · EnvironmentLittle Trave…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $150,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY…+2 more — $25,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS — $150,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY M…BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUT…CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR …RADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO MILWA…Jackson Hole Public Art — $75,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hol…MILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $70,425 · Arts & CultureMILWAUKEE R…THE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOSTON …SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $60,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE M…SAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $40,000 · Arts & CultureROOM TO READ — $150,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $150,000 · EducationBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $120,000 · EducationEX FABULA INC — $32,500 · EducationREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $315,000 · InternationalTAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC — $90,000 · InternationalTHE SHARING FOUNDATION — $45,000 · InternationalBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $325,000 · Youth DevelopmentWATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $170,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $60,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human Services
Other$5,190,072Environment$935,000Arts & Culture$835,425Education$452,500International$450,000Youth Development$350,000Human Services$325,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSEACOLOGY — $397,725 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC — $325,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL — $315,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER — $310,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING — $170,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLittle Traverse Conservancy Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetROOM TO READ — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS — $150,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNourishMKE Inc — $145,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC — $135,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC — $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKINSHIP MKE INC — $120,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $120,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC — $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRADIO MILWAUKEE INC — $80,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJackson Hole Public Art — $75,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMILWAUKEE REPERTORY THEATER INC — $70,425 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN A HEALTH INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PATHWAYS — $60,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHARING FOUNDATION — $45,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetALL HANDS BOATWORKS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBirthday Wishes Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEX FABULA INC — $32,500 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCHATFIELD BRASS BAND INC — $31,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PHILHARMONIC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE HOUSE OF MILWAUKEE INCORPORATED — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATUPPA ROWING CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSARA M HOLBROOK COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF SCHLITZ AUDUBON NATURE CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN AROOSTOOK AGRICULTURE MUSEUM — $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetGROUNDWORK MILWAUKEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Milwaukee Foundation IncWI26.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Weiss Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife 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 The Afognak Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition37% of income from government
  • The Immigrant Learning Center Inc34% of income from government
  • Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc9% of income from government
  • The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc9% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc3% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Afognak Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Afognak Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 110 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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