· Private foundation
Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation | $91,500 |
| Georgetown University School of Foreign Services | $10,000 |
| Golden Heart Community Foundation | $5,000 |
| Fairbanks Rescue Mission | $3,810 |
| UAF Foundation | $3,000 |
| Resource Center for Parents & Children | $2,500 |
| Georgeson Botanical Garden Friends | $2,000 |
| Pioneer Museum | $1,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club | $1,000 |
| Bishop O'Connell High School | $1,000 |
| University of Washington Foundation | $1,000 |
| Bread Line Inc | $1,000 |
| Hospice of the Valley | $500 |
| Humboldt County Historical Society | $250 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +35%- FRFAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +29%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- ICINTERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +32%
- FMFAIRBANKS MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
- NSNorth Star Community Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +83%
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.
Strengthening the community by providing accessible and affordable health care.
to promote, support and advocate for Alaska agriculture
The blood bank provides blood products and testing services to hospitals to ensure an adequate and safe supply of blood in routine and emergency situations. it provides educational services to potential donors and recipients of blood…
The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce is the leading voice advocating for the community by supporting business prosperity in the Interior.
A lifetime of excellent care provided by your community health care team.
To provide food for hungry people and to distribute surplus food that would ordinarily be discarded.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.
We exist to provide compassionate and comprehensive primary care to the entire kodiak community.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To fund the program and services of hospice of the nothwest to ensure dignified and compassionate care is available to anyone coping with a life-limiting diagnosis.one size doesn't always fit all, especially when it comes to quality of…
Dedicated to advancing, serving, and protecting alaska's hospitality and foodservice industry.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alaska Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Humboldt Historical Society Dba Humboldt County Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 35 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 GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGESON BOTANICAL GARDEN FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS PIONEERS HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Star Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Humboldt Historical Society DBA Humboldt County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: The Usibelli Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc · Bill Stroecker Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Tim and Barb Cerny 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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