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United Way of Southeast Alaska

UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEAST ALASKA was organized for the purpose of assessing, on a continuing basis, the need for health and social service programs; to seek solutions to human problems, to assist in the development of united way member agencies; to promote preventive activities; and to foster cooperation among local, state, and national…

$94k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$12k
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, FY2018 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$119kHuman Services$112kHealth$60kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHousing & Shelter$15k
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $35,021, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,920 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $58,899 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–50k1 grant · $12k
$8,431
Median grant
2
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE GREAT$12,459
AMERICAN RED CROSS - ALASKA REGION$8,431
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT$7,301
CANCER CONNECTION$6,830
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 (FY18–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE: $12k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE: $11k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE: $9k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS - ALASKA REGION: $8k → 8%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE: $8k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS - ALASKA REGION: $7k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS - ALASKA REGION: $5k → 8%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$315k · 10 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
2

Total granted

$315k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionReligionHousing & 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

  • SA
    SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK
    5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue ×18
  • AI
    AWARE Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $44k · revenue +37%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $23k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY SOUTHEAST CHAPTER
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • RI
    REACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +6%
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
Jamhi Health & Wellness Inc

We provide a comprehensive, co occurring disorder-capable, community behavioral health center. we provide quality care using best practices designed to promote health, wellness, self-determination, and recovery. the service area is the…

Health
2
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
3
Food Bank of Alaska

FBA believes no one deserves to be hungry. We are dedicated to eliminating hunger in Alaska by obtaining and providing food to partner agencies and through anti-hunger leadership.

Food & Nutrition
4
Juneau Animal Rescue

To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.

Animals
5
Nami Juneau

The mission of nami juneau, the local affiliate of the national alliance on mental illness, is to provide advocacy, education, support, and public awareness so that all individuals affected by mental illness can build better lives.

Health
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.

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7
Arctic Access Inc

Our Mission is to provide services and opportunities for elders and people with disabilities to remain in the home and village of their choice, and to be active as possible with their families and communities.

Health
8
Women in Safe Homes Inc

Women in safe homes (wish) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing essential support services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and other violent crimes. wish is located in ketchikan and serves over 17 communities…

Human Services
9
Access Alaska Inc

Access Alaska Inc.'s Programs promote a society in which persons with disabilities can live and work in the community of their choice. As a community-based independent living provider, Access Alaska, Inc. addresses independent living needs…

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10
Juneau Youth Services Inc

Responding to the behavioral health needs of alaska's children.

Health
11
Family Promise of Juneau

Family promise of juneau is a community response to family homelessness. we provide shelter and case management to families experiencing a housing crisis. our mission is to help families who are in need and demonstrate the ability to…

Human Services
12
Alaska Police & Fire Chaplains

Offer assistance for emergency personnel.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Community Service 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUNEAU COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $49,262 · OtherJUNEAU COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRYAWARE Inc: $44,253 · OtherAWARE IncPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ALASKA: $18,843 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF ALASKASALVATION ARMY SOUTHEAST CHAPTER: $5,720 · OtherREACH INC: $5,221 · OtherCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $50,123 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,221 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cr…SOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK: $69,580 · Food & NutritionSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $22,948 · HealthPLANNED PARE…Cancer Connection: $13,088 · HealthCancer Conne…SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15,353 · Housing & ShelterLOVE INC JUNEAU: $11,764 · Religion
Other$123,299Human Services$70,344Food & Nutrition$69,580Health$36,036Housing & Shelter$15,353Religion$11,764

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA FOOD BANK: $69,580 over 5y, 12% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $50,123 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUNEAU COOPERATIVE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY: $49,262 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAWARE Inc: $44,253 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT NORTHWEST HAWAII ALASKA INDIANA AND KENTUCKY: $22,948 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $20,221 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15,353 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCancer Connection: $13,088 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetLOVE INC JUNEAU: $11,764 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetREACH INC: $5,221 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Rasmuson FoundationJuneau Community Foun…The Alaska Community …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rasmuson FoundationAK21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rasmuson Foundation · Juneau Community Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · 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 Southeast Alaska funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Southeast Alaska. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 12 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 (FY2024) is on record and reports $9k 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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