· Public charity
Valdez United Way
Organizational Mission: Valdez United Way was organized to mobilize and stimulate the interest and participation of the citizens of the Valdez area on behalf of worthy education, health and welfare and youth organizations, whether local, regional, or national; to stimulate local public interest in social service and health, citizenship…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $43,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $83,731 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $40,041 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank | $15,090 |
| Valdez Senior Center | $15,000 |
| Advocates for Victims of Violance | $13,600 |
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 (FY17–24, $396k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against -33% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- EAEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +91%
- AFAdvocates for Victims of Violence Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +57%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- VUValdez United Wayone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -33%
- SSStepping Stones Learning Centerone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -38%
- CRCOPPER RIVER HOCKEY CLUBone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Valdez Adventure Alliance seeks to improve quality of life through equitable access to outdoor recreation resources education and events. We promote community development through outdoor experiences and events that improve physical and…
Provide support services to persons in crisis as a result of domestic violence or sexual assault. Maintain a shelter building.
To Harness the power of the diverse people of Alaska and their communities to empower and support transformative social change. Stand Up Alaska is an Alaskan-led movement providing intersectional and diverse views on issues affecting all…
Provide Shelter to Battered Women and Children
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…
The mission of the Valdez Native Tribe is to promote the unity, self-determination, and empowerment of the Alaska Native and American Indian beneficiaries residing in the Valdez area, by providing services that will strengthen, increase…
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…
To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.
To raise and release salmon fry to guarantee the return of salmon to Port Valdez to support commercial and sport fishing under the control of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and the PWS Management team.
The business and purpose of this nonprofit corporation shall be to organize, operate and maintain a vocational and technical education center to provide education and training to the residents of Southwest Alaska and other communities; to…
To provide electric power to 59 remote alaskan villages.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valdez United Way and the most unlike its peers is Terminal Radio Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 20 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 Emergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez ↗
- Who funds VALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Advocates for Victims of Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sound Wellness Alliance Network ↗
- Who funds Valdez Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING TIES INC ↗
- Who funds CORDOVA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Connections To Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds TERMINAL RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds Valdez United Way ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Learning Center ↗
- Who funds Valdez Swim Club Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF ALASKA ↗
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: Copper Valley Electric Association Commu · Providence Alaska Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Rasmuson Foundation · 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 Valdez United Way 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.
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