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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.

$629k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$164k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$382kArts & Culture$294kRecreation & Sports$95kHuman Services$94kFood & Nutrition$36kPhilanthropy$27kInternational$25kEducation$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $474k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM$164,497
MARFAN FOUNDATION$120,000
ALASKA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED$70,000
CHALLENGE ALASKA$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
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEMHI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM: $50k → 14%CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%OLD MISSION ROTARY CLUB - PATHWAYS: $5k → 11%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $120k → 6%ALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 12%OLD MISSION ROTARY CLUB - PATHWAYS: $4k → 11%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $26k → 6%ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $10k → 10%OLD MISSION ROTARY CLUB - PATHWAYS: $4k → 11%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%OLD MISSION ROTARY CLUB - PATHWAYS: $4k → 11%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $10k → 10%MARFAN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $10k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $5k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%UAA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $4k → 10%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $3k → 10%UAA FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UAA FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%BLOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $3k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $164k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $14k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $10k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $10k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $10k → 10%ALASKA AVIATION MUSEUM: $4k → 10%CHALLENGE ALASKA: $70k → 10%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ALASKA INC: $25k → 10%ALASKA CENTER FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $70k → 10%ALASKA CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 10%ALASKA CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 10%ANCHOR-AGE CENTER AKA ANCHORAGE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER: $25k → 10%FOOD BANK OF ALASKA: $25k → 10%SALVATION ARMY OF ALASKA: $25k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM: $12k → 10%ANCHOR-AGE CENTER INC: $6k → 10%ANCHOR-AGE CENTER INC: $4k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM: $4k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM: $3k → 10%ANCHORAGE MUSEUM: $3k → 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
ID
IL
NY
CA
CO
DC
TX
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$921k · 22 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$921k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+38%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalOther
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

  • AA
    Alaska Aviation Museum
    6× · 2019–2025 · $212k · revenue +36%
  • AC
    Alaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired
    6× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +58%
  • CA
    Challenge Alaska
    4× · 2020–2025 · $74k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • AS
    ANCHORAGE SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +14%
  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

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…

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3
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
4
Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education
5
Alaska Trails

Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.

Recreation & Sports
6
Anchorage Museum Association

The anchorage museum association operates the anchorage museum at rasmuson center.

Arts & Culture
7
Alaska Airlines Foundation
Philanthropy
8
Alaska Power Association

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.

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9
Alaska Geographic Association

Connects people to alaska's public lands through the creation and delivery of educational products and programs.

Environment
10
Alaska Avalanche School Inc

The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
United Way of Anchorage

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…

Philanthropy
12
Assistive Technology of Alaska

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…

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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 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 40 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $241,000 · OtherTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INCAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $80,000 · OtherAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually ImpairedChallenge Alaska: $74,000 · OtherChallenge AlaskaLEMHI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM: $50,500 · OtherLEMHI COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUMANCHOR-AGE CENTER: $41,800 · OtherANCHOR-AGE CENTERANCHORAGE MUSEUM: $28,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF ALASKA: $25,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY: $22,300 · Other+19 more: $58,300 · Other+19 moreAlaska Aviation Museum: $211,997 · Arts & CultureAlaska Aviation Museum+3 more: $6,500 · Arts & CultureBlood Bank of Alaska Inc: $35,000 · HealthPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EducationCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationFood Bank of Alaska: $34,500 · Food & NutritionJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc: $25,000 · InternationalGOLD NUGGET TRIATHLON INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$620,900Arts & Culture$218,497Health$60,500Education$35,500Food & Nutrition$34,500International$25,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $241,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetAlaska Aviation Museum: $211,997 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetAlaska Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $80,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetChallenge Alaska: $74,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetANCHOR-AGE CENTER: $41,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Bank of Alaska Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Alaska: $34,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alaska Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREAT LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlaska Native Heritage Center Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSIC MACHINE INC: $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% 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 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 PROVIDENCE ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Alaska Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOLD NUGGET TRIATHLON INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANCHORAGE MUSHING DISTRICT INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
  • Who funds THE GREAT LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds ALASKA AIRMENS ASSOCIATION 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 ↗

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 …The Carr Foundation I…Atwood Foundation IncRichard L and Diane M…Providence Health & S…John C Hughes Foundat…Gottstein Family Foun…Jim and Vicki Jansen …Frances & David Rose …Valley Hospital Assoc…M J Murdock Charitabl…
Rasmuson FoundationAK33.6× affinity14 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 · 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

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 Sholton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sholton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report 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 40 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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