· Public charity
United Way of Matanuska-Susitna Borough
United way of mat-su's core purpose is positive community impact focusing on the building blocks for a good community: education, income and health.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $59,979 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,804 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,825 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REACH 907 | $22,500 |
| ONWARD & UPWARD | $14,200 |
| SUNSHINE STATION CHILD CARE | $8,279 |
| A TOUCH OF HOME CHILD CARE | $7,500 |
| TREE OF LIFE CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SCSunshine Community Health Center Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +114%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE4× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +29%
- CECCS Early Learning3× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- MBMATSU BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $22k
- MYMAT-SU YOUTH HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +407%
- MSMat-Su Services for Children & Adults Incone grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -48%
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.
To provide comprehensive mental health and primary care services in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The Organization operates mental health-related clinics and a Primary Health Care Clinic.
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…
Administer programs designed to provide services, education, and consultation in the areas of mental health and substance use to the Seward, Alaska area.
The organization operates primarily on the Southern Kenai Peninsula and its operations include the following:Community Mental Health - Counseling, evaluation, consultation and crisis mental health services for Adults and…
Supporting children and families through individual, community-based services. We provide behavioral health services to severely emotionally disturbed children (ages 2 to 24) and their families.
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
As a leading Alaska drug and alcohol treatment center, True North Recovery Inc. is on mission to provide our community with client centered, culturally competent behavioral health treatment with same day access to services through:…
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,…
Daybreak helps Alaskans facing serious mental illness, brain injuries, or reentry after incarceration find stability and independence. Through personalized resource facilitation, Daybreak connects clients to housing, employment,…
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
Sprout Family Services promotes the healthy development of children in partnership with families and community. We do this through parent education and coaching, therapeutic supports for children, and facilitation of social connections and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc and the most unlike its peers is American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 25 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 Sunshine Community Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds CCS Early Learning ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds Wasilla Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH 907 ↗
- Who funds PALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Set Free Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING ↗
- Who funds Onward and Upward ↗
- Who funds Mat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc ↗
- Who funds Access Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds Alaska Legal Services Corporation ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Station Child Care Center ↗
- Who funds Alzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska ↗
- Who funds Alaska Addiction Rehabilitation Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Kids Kupboard ↗
- Who funds Co-Occurring Disorders Institute Inc dba Compassionate Directions ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHARITIES 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: Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Rural Alaska Community Action Program · The Carr Foundation Inc · Network for Good · 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 United Way of Matanuska-Susitna Borough 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.