· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $801k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seacology | $132,575 |
| Blessings in a Backpack | $125,000 |
| Yellowstone Forever | $125,000 |
| Remote Area Medical | $105,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $100,000 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $100,000 |
| NourishMKE Inc | $85,000 |
| Climb | $60,000 |
| Acts Community Development Corp (dba Acts Housing) | $60,000 |
| Room To Read | $50,000 |
| Community Musicworks | $50,000 |
| Reach Out and Read Inc | $50,000 |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition Inc | $50,000 |
| Little Traverse Conservancy | $50,000 |
| Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras | $50,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against -76% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BIBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $325k · revenue +189% · 30% of their budget
- RAREMOTE AREA MEDICAL3× · 2023–2025 · $315k · revenue +69%
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER3× · 2023–2025 · $310k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- ACACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2022 · $60k
- FCFRIEDENS COMMUNITY MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $50k
- BYBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORECHESTRAone grant, 2021 · $50k
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.
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.
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,…
To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
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.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
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.
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.
How this is measured
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 106 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 SEACOLOGY ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds REMOTE AREA MEDICAL ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMB DBA CLIMB WYOMING ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds NourishMKE Inc ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUPPETRY ARTSINC ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP MKE INC ↗
- Who funds BILLION OYSTER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ACTS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds TAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPLAIN VALLEY OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Afognak Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Afognak Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity Inc: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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