· Private foundation
The Sholton Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $474k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM | $164,497 |
| MARFAN FOUNDATION | $120,000 |
| CHALLENGE ALASKA | $70,000 |
| ALASKA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $70,000 |
| LEMHI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| ANCHOR-AGE CENTER AKA ANCHORAGE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF ALASKA | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF ALASKA | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALASKA INC | $25,000 |
| ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| GOLD NUGGET TRIATHLON INC | $10,000 |
| BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA | $10,000 |
| ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC | $5,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- AAAlaska Aviation Museum6× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +36%
- ACAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired6× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +58%
- CAChallenge Alaska4× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- ASANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $10k
- AAALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +34%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKAone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +14%
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 Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association (AHHA) is a non-profit trade association representing more than 65 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, and other healthcare partners.Our members are distributed across…
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
The anchorage museum association operates the anchorage museum at rasmuson center.
Promote and encourage cooperation among Alaska electric utilities and their customers while promoting the operation of electrical plants adequate for the needs of Alaskan consumers.
Connects people to alaska's public lands through the creation and delivery of educational products and programs.
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities. Thats been our mission since we first started serving Alaska. It guides how we solve our communitys toughest challenges and is why weve been able…
To provide assistive technology devices and services to individuals with disabilities. provide demonstrations, awareness, loans and training for people with vision, hearing, communication, learning, and memory disabilities. provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Marfan Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 40 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
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 THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Alaska Aviation Museum ↗
- Who funds Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired ↗
- Who funds Challenge Alaska ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR-AGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Blood Bank of Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLD NUGGET TRIATHLON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Alaska Native Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC MACHINE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Carr Foundation Inc · Atwood Foundation Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · John C Hughes Foundation · Gottstein Family Foundation · Jim and Vicki Jansen Foundation · Frances & David Rose Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
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 Sholton 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.
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.