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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.

$71k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2023.

Human Services$136kHealth$134kYouth Development$66kEducation$47kCrime & Legal$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kFood & Nutrition$26kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $59,979, the rows itemized in this filing. The $70,804 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,825 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 · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$8,279
Median grant
1
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%KIDS KUPBOARD: $6k → 10%Wasilla Area Seniors: $10k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $10k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $10k → 10%WASILLA AREA SENIORS INC: $6k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$348k · 9 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$348k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalEducationOther
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

  • SC
    Sunshine Community Health Center Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +114%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S PLACE
    4× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +29%
  • CE
    CCS Early Learning
    3× · 2017–2021 · $47k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • MB
    MATSU BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • MY
    MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +407%
  • MS
    Mat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $12k · revenue -48%
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
Mat-Su Health Services Inc

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.

Health
2
Alaska Childrens Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
3
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.

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4
South Peninsula Behavioral Health Services Inc

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…

Health
5
Denali Family Services

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.

Health
6
Alaska Community Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
7
True North Recovery Inc

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:…

Health
8
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
9
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
10
Daybreak Inc

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,…

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11
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
12
Sprout Family Services

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S PLACE: $51,164 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACECCS Early Learning: $46,644 · OtherCCS Early LearningPALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $26,000 · OtherPALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INCMATSU BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22,000 · OtherMATSU BOROUGH SCHOOL DISTRICTMat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc: $11,638 · OtherAccess Alaska Inc: $11,040 · OtherAmerican Red Cross Alaska: $9,534 · OtherSunshine Station Child Care Center: $8,279 · OtherA TOUCH OF HOME CHILD CARE: $7,500 · OtherTREE OF LIFE CHURCH: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $19,077 · Other+3 moreSunshine Community Health Center Inc: $69,800 · HealthSunshine Community Heal…Set Free Alaska Inc: $20,000 · HealthSet Free Alaska IncAlaska Addiction Rehabilitation Services Inc: $6,423 · HealthAlaska Addiction Rehabi…Co-Occurring Disorders Institute Inc dba Compassionate Directions: $6,000 · HealthCo-Occurring Disorders …Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $43,800 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club…REACH 907: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentREACH 907Wasilla Area Seniors Inc: $36,281 · Human ServicesWasilla Area S…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…Kids Kupboard: $6,000 · Human ServicesKids KupboardMAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING: $15,815 · Housing & ShelterOnward and Upward: $14,200 · EducationAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $9,450 · Crime & Legal
Other$220,376Health$102,223Youth Development$78,300Human Services$62,281Housing & Shelter$15,815Education$14,200Crime & Legal$9,450

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 budgetSunshine Community Health Center Inc: $69,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE: $51,164 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCCS Early Learning: $46,644 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska: $43,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWasilla Area Seniors Inc: $36,281 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetREACH 907: $34,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetPALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSet Free Alaska Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING: $15,815 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOnward and Upward: $14,200 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMat-Su Services for Children & Adults Inc: $11,638 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccess Alaska Inc: $11,040 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $9,450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSunshine Station Child Care Center: $8,279 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAlzheimers Disease Resource Agency of Alaska: $6,914 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlaska Addiction Rehabilitation Services Inc: $6,423 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCo-Occurring Disorders Institute Inc dba Compassionate Directions: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKids Kupboard: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVALLEY CHARITIES INC: $5,663 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Valley Hospital Assoc…Rasmuson FoundationThe Alaska Community …Mta Foundation IncMatanuska Electric As…Richard L and Diane M…Rural Alaska Communit…The Carr Foundation I…Network for GoodAmazonsmile Foundation
Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health FoundationAK49.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    8report 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 25 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $13k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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