· Public charity
United Way of Anchorage
We unite caring people to give volunteer and take action to remove barriers to opportunities.
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.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
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%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCatholic Social Services8× · 2017–2024 · $909k · revenue +226%
- CFCAMP FIRE ALASKA8× · 2017–2024 · $808k · revenue +18%
- 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
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.
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…
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 assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.
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.
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,…
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 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.
How this is measured
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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