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The Usibelli Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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$176kArts & Culture$166kEducation$138kRecreation & Sports$118kHuman Services$104kFood & Nutrition$102kYouth Development$98kPublic Benefit$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k66 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Aurora Disability Services$3,000
Fairbanks Resource Agency$3,000
Fairbanks Concert Association$3,000
Fairbanks Rescue Mission$3,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $3k → 21%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $2k → 21%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $1k → 10%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $2k → 21%Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $1k → 10%North Star Council on Aging: $2k → 21%North Star Council on Aging: $2k → 21%North Star Council on Aging: $2k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $12k → 7%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $2k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $8k → 7%North Star Council on Aging: $2k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $7k → 7%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $2k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $5k → 7%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $5k → 7%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $4k → 7%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $1k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $3k → 7%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $1k → 21%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $3k → 7%Denali Preschool and Learning Center: $2k → 7%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Family Centered Services of Alaska: $1k → 8%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $1k → 21%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Resource Agency: $1k → 21%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $500 → 21%North Star Council on Aging Inc: $500 → 21%Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living: $500 → 21%North Star Council on Aging: $500 → 21%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $500 → 21%North Star Council on Aging: $500 → 21%Fairbanks Youth Advocates: $500 → 21%Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living: $500 → 21%Interior Alaska Center for Non-Violent Living: $500 → 21%ThrivAlaska: $250 → 21%ThrivAlaska: $250 → 21%ThrivAlaska: $250 → 21%Resource Center for Parents and Children: $250 → 21%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 125 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
42

Total granted

$1.2M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+10%

Still filing today

55%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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

  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +21%
  • TG
    THE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    5× · 2017–2021 · $51k · revenue +17%
  • AR
    ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +299%

Funded once

  • FP
    FAIRBANKS PIONEERS HOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • FC
    FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY GARDEN
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • VI
    VOLUNTEERS IN POLICING
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -68%
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 Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
2
University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni Association

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…

Education
3
Food Bank of Alaska

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
Anchorage Ski Club Inc

To provide access, facilities, recreation, and educational opportunities within the alpine environment of Chugach State Park.

Recreation & Sports
5
Alaska Farmers Market Association

to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture

Education
6
Alaska Trails

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

Recreation & Sports
7
Fairbanks Library Foundation

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…

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8
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
9
Ak Firecrackers

National amateur sports (softball) competition

Recreation & Sports
10
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
11
Alaskans for Better Elections Foundation
Civil Rights
12
Southeast Alaska State Fair Inc

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,…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/98
Grantees still filing
65/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Denali Borough School District: $72,000 · OtherDenali Borough School DistrictUnited Way of the Tanana Valley Inc: $59,108 · OtherUnited Way of the Tanana Valley IncRunning Club North: $50,000 · OtherRunning Club NorthKIDS IN MOTION: $44,507 · OtherKIDS IN MOTIONTri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department: $44,278 · OtherTri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department+124 more: $512,640 · Other+124 moreEarly Learning Coalition: $48,511 · Human ServicesFAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY: $13,000 · Human ServicesNORTH STAR COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesFAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATES: $7,000 · Human ServicesRESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC: $5,750 · Human Services+4 more: $6,275 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $51,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,127 · HealthBlood Bank of Alaska Inc: $7,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,146 · Health+5 more: $5,000 · HealthNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $61,035 · Food & NutritionFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $14,200 · Food & NutritionCALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER: $4,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionHEALY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $41,050 · Recreation & SportsFAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCER: $8,250 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Hockey Club Fairbanks: $7,250 · Recreation & SportsFAIRBANKS CURLING CLUB INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsSTINGRAY SWIM TEAM INC: $4,000 · Recreation & Sports+8 more: $9,750 · Recreation & SportsFairbanks Childrens Museum: $17,500 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $16,500 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $9,700 · Arts & CultureNorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $8,550 · Arts & CultureFAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $6,150 · Arts & CultureWORLD ESKIMO INDIAN OLYMPICS: $4,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION: $50,333 · EnvironmentDOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7,500 · EnvironmentGEORGESON BOTANICAL GARDEN FRIENDS: $2,750 · Environment+1 more: $1,000 · Environment
Other$782,533Human Services$90,036Health$82,273Food & Nutrition$80,235Recreation & Sports$76,300Arts & Culture$66,400Environment$61,583

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 budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR: $61,035 over 9y, 24% of budgetUnited Way of the Tanana Valley Inc: $59,108 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION: $50,333 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetEarly Learning Coalition: $48,511 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetTri-Valley Volunteer Fire Department: $44,278 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetHEALY HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $41,050 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetDENALI EDUCATION CENTER: $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFairbanks Childrens Museum: $17,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS: $16,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC: $14,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $13,127 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS SUMMER ARTS FESTIVAL: $12,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBreast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp: $12,270 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRBANKS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $11,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFAIRBANKS SKI COALITION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYUKON QUEST INTERNATIONAL LTD: $10,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFAIRBANKS DRAMA ASSOCIATION FAIRBANKS CHILDRENS THEATRE INC: $9,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH STAR COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA SONGBIRD INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $8,550 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRBANKS YOUTH SOCCER: $8,250 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION OF FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $7,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Hockey Club Fairbanks: $7,250 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetMIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Bank of Alaska Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATES: $7,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetFAIRBANKS SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $6,150 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,146 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRBANKS CURLING CLUB INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC: $5,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD ESKIMO INDIAN OLYMPICS: $4,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetCALYPSO FARM & ECOLOGY CENTER: $4,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST REGIONAL RESOURCE CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTINGRAY SWIM TEAM INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAD LINE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH POLE LIONS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetLITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA: $3,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN ICE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSnedden Family Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetGEORGESON BOTANICAL GARDEN FRIENDS: $2,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetINTERIOR ALASKA CENTER FOR NON-VIOLENT LIVING: $2,525 over 5y, 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 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 FAIRBANKS CONCERT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORDIC SKI CLUB OF FAIRBANKS ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …Bill Stroecker Founda…United Way of the Tan…Richard L and Diane M…Valley Hospital Assoc…Marion G Weeks Founda…Dan and Gwen Ramras C…Alaska Humanities For…Tim and Barb Cerny Fo…The Norman FoundationAlaska Children's Tru…
Rasmuson FoundationAK109× affinity60 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 · 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

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 Usibelli Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Usibelli 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Usibelli Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Usibelli Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 178 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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