· Public charity
United Way of Anchorage
We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities.
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.
The 21 grants below total $914,806 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,631,980 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,717,174 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $617k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Covenant House Alaska | $148,060 |
| Catholic Social Services | $91,476 |
| Camp Fire Alaska | $78,044 |
| Salvation Army Anchorage | $67,284 |
| AK Child & Family | $62,642 |
| Abused Women s Aid in Crisis | $62,642 |
| Alaska Behavior Health | $53,995 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska | $52,465 |
| Food Bank Of Alaska | $46,290 |
| Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center | $40,789 |
| thread | $36,711 |
| Standing Together Against Rape | $27,761 |
| Nine Star Enterprises Inc | $27,375 |
| Bean s Cafe | $24,471 |
| Programs For Infants & Children Incorporated PIC | $20,618 |
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 (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of United Way of Anchorage’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AK; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
44 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- CSCatholic Social Services8× · 2017–2024 · $909k · revenue +226%
- CFCAMP FIRE ALASKA8× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +17%
- AWABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $517k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- KIKODIAK ISLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +80%
- CICOOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -22%
- WAWest Anchorage High Schoolone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
Dedicated to strengthening the multi-disciplinary response to child abuse. We strive to ensure that professionals throughout Alaska are equipped to do the best job possible at holding offenders accountable and helping children and families…
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…
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…
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
The mission of the alaska native health board is to promote the spiritual, physical, mental, social, and cultural well-being and pride of alaska native people.
To operate an engagement center which provides peer support, resources and consumer directed programs to help mental health consumers, homeless persons and those recovering from substance abuse.
Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.
To provide meaningful access to justice in resolving civil legal problems for low-income clients, thus promoting family stability and reducing legal consequences of poverty.
The mission of the Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness is to provide dynamic leadership to unite Anchorage in making homelessness rare, brief, and one-time.
To provide comprehensive behavioral health services including mental health, rehabilitative, clinical and prevention services to Alaskans, through the operation of substance use disorder residential and outpatient treatment programs,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Children's Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mabel T Caverly Senior Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 55 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 Catholic Social Services ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska ↗
- Who funds Alaska Literacy Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STAR INC ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Alaska ↗
- Who funds Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ↗
- Who funds RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds YWCA ALASKA ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROGRAMS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Corps Inc ↗
- Who funds ALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds CCS Early Learning ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Valdez United Way ↗
- Who funds BEST BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HEALTH FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds KODIAK ISLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES COMMUNITY RESOURCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT ↗
- Who funds ALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME 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 Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Carr Foundation Inc · Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Providence Alaska Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball · Swanson Family Foundation · Global Credit Union 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 United Way of Anchorage 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.