· Public charity
United Way of the Tanana Valley Inc
The United Way of the Tanana Valley's mission is to support nonprofit agencies providing essential health and human services by offering fundraising, advocacy, and volunteer resources, enabling these agencies to focus on their critical programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $110,744 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $161,649 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,905 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAMI of Fairbanks | $14,131 |
| Native Movement | $10,000 |
| Alaska Health Fair | $9,638 |
| Fairbanks Resource Agency | $9,171 |
| Literacy Council of Alaska | $9,053 |
| North Star Council on Aging | $8,978 |
| Fairbanks Childrens Museum | $8,564 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $7,081 |
| Breast Cancer Detection Cente | $7,007 |
| Our 2 Cents Fairbanks Inc | $7,000 |
| Salvation Army | $6,838 |
| Presbyterian Hospitality Hous | $6,681 |
| Midnight Sun Council-Scouting | $6,602 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% 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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- FCFAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $257k · revenue +731%
- AIACCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +32%
- RCRESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- FCFAIRBANKS COUNSELING AND ADOPTIONone grant, 2017 · $53k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +31%
- FYFAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATESone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairbanks Resource Agency and the most unlike its peers is Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp. 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 43 years old; the field is 28. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 31 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 FAIRBANKS RESOURCE AGENCY ↗
- Who funds INTERIOR ALASKA CENTER FOR NON-VIOLENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ACCA INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR PARENTS AND CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY N LEARN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COUNCIL OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Alaska ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southcentral Alaska ↗
- Who funds ALASKA HEALTH FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAD LINE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds MIDNIGHT SUN BOY SCOUT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Access Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds FARTHEST NORTH GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Breast Cancer Detection Center of Alaska and Charitable Corp ↗
- Who funds Fairbanks Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR YOUTH COURT ↗
- Who funds NAMI OF FAIRBANKS ALASKA INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS COUNSELING AND ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds HELPING ALASKA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS YOUTH ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds FAIRBANKS RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Tanana Chiefs Conference ↗
- Who funds North Star Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIVE MOVEMENT ↗
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: The Alaska Community Foundation · Rasmuson Foundation · The Usibelli Foundation · Bill Stroecker Foundation · Interior Community Health Center · Marion G Weeks Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · Grapevine giving foundation · Tim and Barb Cerny Foundation · Dan and Gwen Ramras Charitable Trust Dated 5/17/04 · The Norman 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 the Tanana Valley Inc 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.