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The Usibelli Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k66 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department | $21,310 |
| Neighbor to Neighbor | $14,330 |
| Alaskan Bounty for Children | $10,000 |
| Running Club North | $8,000 |
| Healy Hockey Association | $7,020 |
| Denali Preschool and Learning Center | $6,800 |
| Alaska Resource Education | $5,885 |
| Fairbanks Childrens Museum | $5,500 |
| Denali Borough School District | $5,000 |
| Tri-Valley Community Library | $3,110 |
| Alaska Center for Children and Adults | $3,000 |
| Fairbanks Concert Association | $3,000 |
| Fairbanks Rescue Mission | $3,000 |
| Fairbanks Resource Agency | $3,000 |
| Aurora Disability Services | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 11 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- NTNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +21%
- TGTHE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED5× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +17%
- ARALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +299%
Funded once
- VIVOLUNTEERS IN POLICINGone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -68%
- FCFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY GARDENone grant, 2024 · $2k
- FPFAIRBANKS PIONEERS HOME FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 university of alaska fairbanks alumni association connects and supports uaf and its alumni. we encourage excellence in all aspects of the university and provide opportunities for alumni to engage in lifelong involvement with their…
FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.
To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.
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 purpose is to support all fairbanks north star borough public libraries, to enhance their operations, to encourage and support expansion of library buildings, facilities, and equipment, and to create, manage, and build an investment…
The mission of the Alaska Avalanche School is to provide exceptional experience-based avalanche safety education to all users of the mountain environment.
National amateur sports (softball) competition
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.
Southeast Alaska State Fair Inc enriches community by hosting celebrations of heritage, creativity, and social exchange. Southeast Alaska State Fair hosts a regional Fair and plans and operates other events that enhance the economic,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency and the most unlike its peers is Alaska Historical Publication Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 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
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 NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Early Learning Coalition ↗
- Who funds Tri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds HEALY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DENALI EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Fairbanks Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds NORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS SKI COALITION ↗
- Who funds YUKON QUEST INTERNATIONAL LTD ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA SONGBIRD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska ↗
- Who funds North Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet ↗
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 · Bill Stroecker Foundation · United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Marion G Weeks Foundation · Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04 · Alaska Humanities Forum · Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation · The Norman Foundation · Alaska Children's 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 Usibelli 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.
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