· Private foundation
Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Monroe Foundation | $20,500 |
| Fairbanks Community Hospital Foundation | $20,000 |
| Georgetown University School of Foreign Service | $10,000 |
| UA Foundation | $3,000 |
| Resource Center for Parents & Children | $2,500 |
| Georgeson Botanical Garden Friends | $2,000 |
| Pioneer Museum | $1,000 |
| Alaska Historical Society | $1,000 |
| Bishop O'Connell High School | $1,000 |
| UW Foundation | $1,000 |
| KUAC Friends Group | $750 |
| Humboldt County Historical Society | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +35%- FRFAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +29%
- RCRESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- GUGeorgetown University School of Foreign Servicesone grant, 2024 · $10k
- ICINTERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +32%
- FMFAIRBANKS MONTESSORI SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
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 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…
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…
Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.
The Greater Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce is the leading voice advocating for the community by supporting business prosperity in the Interior.
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…
Strengthen our culture of giving and improve the quality on life among the people of the Arctic Slope region of Alaska by providing and administering grants to support the community health and economic stability of the villages of Point…
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.
The downtown association of fairbanks promotes, preserves and revitalizes downtown fairbanks through their downtown map guide, downtown member spotlights, quarterly newsletters, community interactive website, maintenance of the historic…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GREATER FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MONROE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INTERIOR COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGESON BOTANICAL GARDEN FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS PIONEERS HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Star Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds Humboldt Historical Society DBA Humboldt County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KUAC FRIENDS GROUP ↗
- Who funds MIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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