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The CIRI Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
250
Grants FY2024still arriving
34
States reached
$552k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 250 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k238 grants · $1.5M
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $180k
  • $250k+1 grant · $552k
$6,000
Median grant
34
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRANTS LESS THAN 5000$551,574
HYDABURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,339
CHICKALOON NATIVE VILLAGE$20,000
MUSEUMS ALASKA INC$20,000
SOUTHCENTRAL FOUNDATION$20,000
SALAMATOF TRIBE$15,000
QUINHAGAK HERITAGE INCORPORATED$15,000
ORGANIZED VILLAGE OF KWETHLUK$15,000
BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER$15,000
MUSEUM OF THE ALEUTIANS ASSOCIATION$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $33k → 11%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $15k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $15k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $15k → 10%COOK INLET TRIBAL COUNCIL INC: $15k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $10k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $4k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.7M · 573 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

573
504

Total granted

$9.7M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+19%

Still filing today

3%
4%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AN
    Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $261k · revenue +253%
  • KB
    KOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +15%
  • BB
    BEST BEGINNINGS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $80k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SC
    SELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $33k · revenue -99%
  • CE
    Calista Education and Culture Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +26%
  • AV
    Alaska Village Initiativesgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $21k · revenue +185%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Alaska Historical Publication Association
Education
2
The Aleut Foundation
Education
3
Museum of the Aleutians

The Museum of the Aleutians shall collect, preserve, and share the rich cultural legacy of the Aleutian Islands Region.

Arts & Culture
4
Sealaska Heritage Institute

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Arctic Education Foundation
Education
6
Northern Alaska Environmental Center

Since 1971, the northern alaska environmental center has promoted environmental conservation and sustainable resource stewardship in interior and arctic alaska through education and advocacy.

Environment
7
Alaska Museum of Science and Nature

The alaska museum of science and nature is dedicated to the education and exploration of our scientific and natural world.

Youth Development
8
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
9
Alaska Folk Festival Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Anchorage Museum Foundation

To provide support to the anchorage museum association at rasmuson center for exhibits, acquisitions and operations.

Arts & Culture
11
Katmai Conservancy

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…

Environment
12
Sitka Fine Arts Endowment

To build and manage an endowment for alaska arts southeast, inc.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRANTS LESS THAN 5000: $551,574 · OtherGRANTS LESS THAN 5000+180 more: $4,291,485 · Other+180 moreAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $261,270 · Arts & CultureAlaska Native…KOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION: $130,270 · Arts & CultureKOAHNIC BROAD…BUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER: $96,777 · Arts & CultureBUNNELL STREE…Anchorage Museum Association: $62,550 · Arts & CultureAnchorage Mus…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55,738 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN I…ALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $24,640 · Arts & CultureHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $24,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreBEST BEGINNINGS: $80,100 · PhilanthropyAlaska Village Initiatives: $20,950 · PhilanthropyFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $74,500 · Community ImprovementNATIVE MOVEMENT: $26,000 · Community ImprovementOUTER COAST: $44,000 · EducationCalista Education and Culture Inc: $32,434 · EducationALASKA ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM: $18,320 · EducationCook Inlet Tribal Council: $60,000 · Human ServicesSELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $32,984 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP: $39,900 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,843,059Arts & Culture$695,245Philanthropy$101,050Community Improvement$100,500Education$94,754Human Services$92,984Recreation & Sports$39,900

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $261,270 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKOAHNIC BROADCAST CORPORATION: $130,270 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBUNNELL STREET ARTS CENTER: $96,777 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetBEST BEGINNINGS: $80,100 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetFIRST ALASKANS INSTITUTE: $74,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMUSEUMS ALASKA INC: $70,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetAnchorage Museum Association: $62,550 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCook Inlet Tribal Council: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $55,738 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOUTER COAST: $44,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALASKA ARTS GROUP: $39,900 over 3y, 12% of budgetSELDOVIA COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $32,984 over 1y, 20% of budgetCalista Education and Culture Inc: $32,434 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALUTIIQ HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $24,640 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetClare Swan Early Learning Center: $24,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOMER SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY: $24,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Legion Jack Henry Post 1: $21,934 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAlaska Village Initiatives: $20,950 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSouthcentral Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKodiak Historical Society: $20,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALASKA ARTS EDUCATION CONSORTIUM: $18,320 over 1y, 12% of budgetINSTITUTE OF THE NORTH: $18,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budget
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 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 ↗

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 FoundationThe Alaska Community …Alaska Humanities For…Atwood Foundation IncMuseums Alaska IncM J Murdock Charitabl…Richard L and Diane M…First Nations Develop…Frances & David Rose …Rural Alaska Communit…The Carr Foundation I…Valley Hospital Assoc…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The CIRI Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The CIRI Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
  • Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 1178 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-PF 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home