· Private foundation
The CIRI Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k238 grants · $1.5M
- $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
- $250k+1 grant · $552k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS LESS THAN 5000 | $551,574 |
| HYDABURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,339 |
| MUSEUMS ALASKA INC | $20,000 |
| CHICKALOON NATIVE VILLAGE | $20,000 |
| SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| SALAMATOF TRIBE | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE ALEUTIANS ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KWETHLUK | $15,000 |
| QUINHAGAK HERITAGE INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| MORRIS THOMPSON CULTURAL AND VISITORS CENTER | $14,850 |
| FIRST LIGHT ALASKA INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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
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.
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.
573 repeat relationships — 147 still active in FY2024, 426 since wound down; 99 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ANAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +253%
- KBKOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +15%
- BBBEST BEGINNINGS3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- SCSELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -99%
- CECalista Education and Culture Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +26%
- AVAlaska Village Initiativesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +163%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The Museum of the Aleutians shall collect, preserve, and share the rich cultural legacy of the Aleutian Islands Region.
To protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural, social, political and economic traditions for the tlingit, haida and tsimshian tribes of southeast alaska natives. the institute encourages and promotes the preservation and maintenance of…
Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.
The alaska museum of science and nature is dedicated to the education and exploration of our scientific and natural world.
Alaska residents benefit from free public admission to an arts and culture festival; the week-long festival encourages non-professional musicians and performers, and has been operating since 1975.
To provide support to the anchorage museum association at rasmuson center for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.
Katmai Conservancy supports the preservation of Katmai National Park and Preserve its unique ecosystems scenic character and associated natural and cultural resources by promoting greater public interest appreciation and support through…
To build and manage an endowment for alaska arts southeast, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Storyknife Writers Retreat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 1,178 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BEST BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds FIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUMS ALASKA INC ↗
- Who funds Anchorage Museum Association ↗
- Who funds Cook Inlet Tribal Council ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds OUTER COAST ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP ↗
- Who funds SELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Calista Education and Culture Inc ↗
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.
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
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 CIRI Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
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.