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United Way of Anchorage

We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$148k
Largest
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 2024.

Human Services$3.6MYouth Development$2.0MHealth$1.5MEducation$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MFood & Nutrition$591kPhilanthropy$404kEmployment$348kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $914,806, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,631,980 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,717,174 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $283k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $617k
$36,711
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Lutheran Social Services of A: $58k → 22%Lutheran Social Services of A: $21k → 22%Lutheran Social Services of Alaska Incorporated: $20k → 22%Catholic Social Services: $146k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $91k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $76k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $56k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $49k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $49k → 10%Anchorage Hospice Inc: $45k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $38k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $34k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $32k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $31k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $29k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $28k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $28k → 10%Anchorage Hospice Inc: $26k → 10%Hospice of Anchorage: $23k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $22k → 10%Anchorage Hospice Inc: $21k → 10%Hospice of Anchorage: $20k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $20k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $20k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $20k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $19k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $19k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $17k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $17k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $17k → 10%Catholic Social Services: $17k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $74k → 10%Abused Women s Aid in Crisis: $63k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $53k → 10%Thread: $50k → 10%Abused Women in Crisis: $48k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $48k → 10%Thread: $44k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $43k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $42k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $42k → 10%Child Care Connection Inc: $40k → 10%Child Care Connection Inc: $39k → 10%thread: $37k → 10%Thread: $32k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $28k → 10%Abused Women in Crisis: $25k → 10%Abused Womens Aid in Crisis: $18k → 10%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of United Way of Anchorage’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in AK; by stated purpose, 92%.

United Way of Anchoragelessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$11M · 44 repeat orgs$503k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
9

Total granted

$11M
$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CS
    Catholic Social Services
    8× · 2017–2024 · $909k · revenue +226%
  • CF
    CAMP FIRE ALASKA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +18%
  • AW
    ABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $517k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • KI
    KODIAK ISLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +80%
  • CI
    COOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -22%
  • WA
    West Anchorage High School
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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 Childrens Alliance

The Alaska Childrens Alliance strengthens Alaskas multidisciplinary response to child abuse by supporting, educating, and connecting professionals who work to protect children, promote healing for children and families, and advance…

Crime & Legal
2
United Way of Anchorage

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…

Philanthropy
3
Alaska Hospital & Healthcare Association

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…

—
4
Alaska Community Development Corporation

To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.

Community Improvement
5
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
6
Seaview Community Services

Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.

—
7
Alaska Native Health Board

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.

—
8
Alaska Mental Health Consumer Web

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.

Health
9
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
10
Akeela Inc prv known as Akeela Treatment Services

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,…

Health
11
Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness

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.

Human Services
12
Anchorage Affordable Housing and

To expand and preserve year-round rental opportunities that are affordable to moderate, low, and very low-income households to foster a welcoming environment for demographically and socio-economically diverse populations in Anchorage, AK.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Children's Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 55 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
29/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Salvation Army Anchorage: $840,707 · OtherSalvation Army AnchorageVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $367,771 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INCSTAR INC: $306,528 · OtherSTAR INCYWCA ALASKA: $294,683 · OtherYWCA ALASKAKids Corps Inc: $241,073 · OtherKids Corps IncGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA: $188,644 · OtherVolunteer of America: $169,989 · OtherCCS Early Learning: $152,274 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE: $151,180 · OtherNINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC: $347,835 · OtherNINE STAR ENTERPRISES INCFood Bank of Alaska: $301,662 · OtherFood Bank of AlaskaRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $298,156 · OtherRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM+13 more: $658,060 · Other+13 moreCatholic Social Services: $908,770 · Human ServicesCatholic Social ServicesABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC: $516,685 · Human ServicesABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CR…COVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $463,163 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKAChild Care Connection Inc DBA Thread: $299,217 · Human ServicesChild Care Connection In…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA: $167,804 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES…ANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $148,631 · Human ServicesANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC+1 more: $16,374 · Human ServicesCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $807,680 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE ALASKABoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $633,348 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club…Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska: $364,482 · Youth DevelopmentBig Brothers Big …ANCHORAGE NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $353,530 · HealthANCHORAGE NEIG…ANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $338,042 · HealthANCHORAGE COMM…ALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $273,987 · HealthALASKA CHILDRE…ALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $200,704 · HealthALASKAN AIDS A…CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES: $155,164 · HealthCHRISTIAN HEAL…ALASKA HEALTH FAIR INC: $109,599 · HealthALASKA HEALTH …ALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER: $80,835 · Health+1 more: $5,455 · HealthAlaska Literacy Program Inc: $358,970 · EducationPROGRAMS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $265,132 · EducationSpirit of Youth: $57,587 · EducationValdez United Way: $133,333 · PhilanthropyBEST BEGINNINGS: $132,586 · PhilanthropyBRIDGES COMMUNITY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $95,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH: $48,606 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA: $43,695 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $21,552 · PhilanthropyBeans Cafe Inc: $244,477 · Housing & ShelterCOOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $8,700 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,318,562Human Services$2,520,644Youth Development$1,805,510Health$1,517,316Education$681,689Philanthropy$474,772Housing & Shelter$353,177

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCatholic Social Services: $908,770 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCAMP FIRE ALASKA: $807,680 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $633,348 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetABUSED WOMEN'S AID IN CRISIS INC: $516,685 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ALASKA: $463,163 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska: $364,482 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetAlaska Literacy Program Inc: $358,970 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetANCHORAGE NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $353,530 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetNINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC: $347,835 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetANCHORAGE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $338,042 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTAR INC: $306,528 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetFood Bank of Alaska: $301,662 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetChild Care Connection Inc DBA Thread: $299,217 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetRURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM: $298,156 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA ALASKA: $294,683 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetALASKA CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $273,987 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPROGRAMS FOR INFANTS AND CHILDREN INC: $265,132 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBeans Cafe Inc: $244,477 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetKids Corps Inc: $241,073 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $200,704 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA: $188,644 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ALASKA: $167,804 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES: $155,164 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCCS Early Learning: $152,274 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ANCHORAGE: $151,180 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetANCHORAGE HOSPICE INC: $148,631 over 5y, 11% of budgetValdez United Way: $133,333 over 3y, 28% of budgetBEST BEGINNINGS: $132,586 over 8y, 10% of budgetALASKA HEALTH FAIR INC: $109,599 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetKODIAK ISLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCOOK INLET HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALASKA INJURY PREVENTION CENTER: $80,835 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetANCHORAGE YOUTH COURT: $76,806 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetALASKA SPORTS HALL OF FAME INC: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUnited Way of the Tanana Valley Inc: $61,610 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSpirit of Youth: $57,587 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH: $48,606 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA: $43,695 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMabel T Caverly Senior Center Inc: $36,758 over 2y, 14% of budget610 Great Alaska Council: $24,168 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $21,552 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $16,374 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ANCHORAGE ALASKA: $11,246 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKENAI PENINSULA FOOD BANK INC: $9,358 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHILOH COMMUNITY HOUSING INC: $8,700 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis Pregnancy Center: $5,455 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LEESHORE CENTER: $5,026 over 1y, 0.3% 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 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 ↗

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.

The Alaska Community FoundationAK88.2× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 United Way of Anchorage funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Anchorage. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    19report 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.

    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 55 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.8M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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