How much does The CIRI Foundation give?

The CIRI Foundation reported 250 grants totaling $2,255,023 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 412 and 530 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The CIRI Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Arts & Culture (9%), Employment (6%).

Who are The CIRI Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ($261k), Koahnic Broadcast Corporation ($130k), Bunnell Street Arts Center ($97k).

Does The CIRI Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The CIRI Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The CIRI Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation, Alaska Humanities Forum.

Where is The CIRI Foundation based?

The CIRI Foundation is based in AK.

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Alaska · Private foundation

The CIRI Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 250
Grants FY2024: 530
Organizations funded FY2023: 46%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $6,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $551,574
Organizations funded a year: 412 to 530; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 34
Total assets, FY2024: $64M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 46% of the organizations The CIRI Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	246	$2.3M	40%
FY2023	530	$3.3M	46%
FY2022	412	$2.5M	38%
FY2021	450	$2.8M	48%
FY2020	462	$2.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$1.3MEmployment$841kCommunity Improvement$102kHuman Services$82kCivil Rights$73kYouth Development$51kHousing & Shelter$43kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc	$261,270	4	2%
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation	$130,270	4	2%
Bunnell Street Arts Center	$96,777	5	5%
Best Beginnings	$80,100	3	5%
First Alaskans Institute	$74,500	4	1%
Museums Alaska Inc	$70,000	3	4%
Anchorage Museum Association	$62,550	3	0%
Cook Inlet Tribal Council	$60,000	4	0%
Smithsonian Institution	$55,738	3	0%
Outer Coast	$44,000	2	3%

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All grantees of The CIRI Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc	$261,270	4	2%
Koahnic Broadcast Corporation	$130,270	4	2%
Bunnell Street Arts Center	$96,777	5	5%
Best Beginnings	$80,100	3	5%
First Alaskans Institute	$74,500	4	1%
Museums Alaska Inc	$70,000	3	4%
Anchorage Museum Association	$62,550	3	0%
Cook Inlet Tribal Council	$60,000	4	0%
Smithsonian Institution	$55,738	3	0%
Outer Coast	$44,000	2	3%
Southwest Alaska Arts Group	$39,900	3	12%
Seldovia Community Preschool	$32,984	1	20%
Calista Education and Culture Inc	$32,434	1	1%
Native Movement	$26,000	2	0%
Alutiiq Heritage Foundation	$24,640	2	0%
Clare Swan Early Learning Center	$24,000	2	0%
Homer Society of Natural History	$24,000	2	3%
American Legion Jack Henry Post 1	$21,934	4	1%
Alaska Village Initiatives	$20,950	1	4%
Southcentral Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Kodiak Historical Society	$20,000	2	4%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation	$20,000	1	0%
Qawalangin Tribal Council	$18,500	2	n/a
Alaska Arts Education Consortium	$18,320	1	12%
Institute of the North	$18,000	1	3%
Friends of the Alaska State Library	$16,000	1	14%
Alaska Native Justice Center	$15,300	2	0%
Salamatof Tribal Council	$15,000	1	n/a
Friends of the Juneau-Douglas City Museum	$15,000	1	n/a
Old Dartmouth Historical Society	$15,000	1	0%
Quinhagak Heritage Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Kawerak Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors Center	$14,850	1	1%
Covenant House Alaska	$14,200	1	0%
Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation	$13,750	1	17%
Native Peoples Action Community Fund	$13,400	1	1%
Homer Council on the Arts	$12,100	1	6%
Alaska Native Arts Foundation	$12,000	1	n/a
Dancewest Booster Club	$12,000	2	n/a
Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum	$11,000	1	16%
Alaska Pacific University	$10,200	2	0%
Alaska Native Media Group	$10,000	1	n/a
First Light Alaska Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Anchorage Park Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Friends of the Juneau Community Charter School	$9,000	2	n/a
Cook Inlet Native Head Start	$8,000	1	0%
Old Harbor Alliance	$7,000	1	4%
Goldbelt Heritage Foundation	$7,000	1	0%
See Stories	$6,000	1	2%
Alaska World Affairs Council	$6,000	1	3%
Denali Arts Council Inc	$3,000	1	1%
Samantha Pushruk	$2,750	1	n/a
Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc	$350	3	0%
Alaska Innocence Project	$100	1	0%
Storyknife Writers Retreat	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1,121 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The CIRI Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 45.

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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.

Rasmuson FoundationAK79.9× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Alaska Humanities Forum · Atwood Foundation Inc · Museums Alaska Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · First Nations Development Institute · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation

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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About The CIRI Foundation

How much does The CIRI Foundation give?: The CIRI Foundation reported 250 grants totaling $2,255,023 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 412 and 530 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The CIRI Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (77%), Arts & Culture (9%), Employment (6%).
Who are The CIRI Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ($261k), Koahnic Broadcast Corporation ($130k), Bunnell Street Arts Center ($97k).
Does The CIRI Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The CIRI Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The CIRI Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rasmuson Foundation, The Alaska Community Foundation, Alaska Humanities Forum.
Where is The CIRI Foundation based?: The CIRI Foundation is based in AK.