Wisconsin · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $132,575
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 50
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $38M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations The Afognak Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 50 | $2.1M | 12% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $1.9M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $1.9M | 94% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $1.4M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seacology | $397,725 | 3 | 5% |
| Blessings in a Backpack Inc | $325,000 | 3 | 30% |
| Remote Area Medical | $315,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $310,000 | 3 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Climb Dba Climb Wyoming | $170,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Room to Read | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Little Traverse Conservancy Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Afognak Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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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.
About The Afognak Fund
- How much does The Afognak Fund give?
- The Afognak Fund reported 50 grants totaling $2,056,075 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 50 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does The Afognak Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (15%), Arts & Culture (11%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are The Afognak Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Seacology ($398k), Blessings in a Backpack Inc ($325k), Remote Area Medical ($315k).
- Does The Afognak Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Afognak Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Afognak Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc.
- Where is The Afognak Fund based?
- The Afognak Fund is based in WI.
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