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The Alaska Center Education Fund

We educate and engage alaskans of all ages to support clean air and water, build healthy and resilient communities, and become empowered stewards.

$771k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2021
0%
First-time grantees FY2021
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84% of The Alaska Center Education Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Alaska Center, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
0
’19
0
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$95,160
Largest grant, FY2024
$650,790
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 0% of the organizations The Alaska Center Education Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$120k50%
FY20211$20k0%
FY20173$295kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$6.7MCivil Rights$307kEducation$25kAnimals$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Native Peoples Action Inc$250,0001n/a
Native Movement$152,24534%
University of Alaska$25,0001n/a
Gwichin Steering Committee$8,00014%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Alaska Conservation FoundationAK13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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How do I get to The Alaska Center Education Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Alaska Center Education 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 Alaska Center Education Fund

How much does The Alaska Center Education Fund give?
The Alaska Center Education Fund reported 3 grants totaling $770,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does The Alaska Center Education Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (95%), Civil Rights (4%), Education (0%).
Who are The Alaska Center Education Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Native Peoples Action Inc ($250k), Native Movement ($152k), University of Alaska ($25k).
Does The Alaska Center Education Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Alaska Center Education Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alaska Conservation Foundation.
Where is The Alaska Center Education Fund based?
The Alaska Center Education Fund is based in AK.

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 5 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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