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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…

$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$263kEducation$139kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kArts & Culture$63kHealth$60kRecreation & Sports$59kFood & Nutrition$58kCrime & Legal$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $43,690, the rows itemized in this filing. The $83,731 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $40,041 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$365k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank$15,090
Valdez Senior Center$15,000
Advocates for Victims of Violance$13,600
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Copper River Basin Child Advocacy C: $8k → 14%Copper River Basin Child Adv: $7k → 14%Valdez Emergency Assistance: $22k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assistance: $22k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank: $19k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assistance: $18k → 7%Connecting Ties Inc: $17k → 7%Valdez Senior Citizens: $16k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank: $15k → 7%Valdez Senior Center Inc: $15k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $15k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $15k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Violance: $15k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Violance: $15k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank: $14k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Violance: $14k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Violance: $14k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $13k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $13k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Viol: $13k → 7%Advocates For Victims of Violance: $13k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $12k → 7%Connecting Ties Inc: $11k → 7%Connections to Care: $10k → 7%Advocates for Victims of Viol: $10k → 7%Valdez Senior Center: $10k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assist Food Bank: $10k → 7%Valdez Emergency Assistance: $9k → 7%Connections to Care: $8k → 7%Advocates For Victims of Violance: $7k → 7%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$711k · 15 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -33% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
5

Total granted

$711k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-33%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • EA
    Emergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez
    8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +91%
  • AF
    Advocates for Victims of Violence Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +57%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • VU
    Valdez United Way
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -33%
  • SS
    Stepping Stones Learning Center
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -38%
  • CR
    COPPER RIVER HOCKEY CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Valdez Adventure Alliance

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…

Human Services
2
Kodiak Womens Resource and Cri Center

Provide support services to persons in crisis as a result of domestic violence or sexual assault. Maintain a shelter building.

Human Services
3
Stand Up Alaska

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…

Civil Rights
4
Bering Sea Womans Group

Provide Shelter to Battered Women and Children

Human Services
5
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
6
Valdez Native Tribe

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…

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7
United Way of Anchorage

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…

Philanthropy
8
Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness

To increase affordable housing and end homelessness in Alaska.

Housing & Shelter
9
Valdez Fisheries Development Association Inc

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.

Animals
10
The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center

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…

Education
11
Alaska Village Electric Cooperative Inc

To provide electric power to 59 remote alaskan villages.

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12
Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association Educational Foundation Inc
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valdez United Way; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/16
Grantees still filing
7/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Emergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez: $128,420 · Human ServicesEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of ValdezVALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC: $107,810 · Human ServicesVALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INCAdvocates for Victims of Violence Inc: $99,424 · Human ServicesAdvocates for Victims of Violence IncCONNECTING TIES INC: $28,200 · Human ServicesCONNECTING TIES INCConnections To Care Inc: $17,500 · Human ServicesCopper River Basin Child Advocacy Center: $14,900 · Human ServicesValdez City Schools: $60,744 · OtherValdez City SchoolsUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA: $48,418 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKASound Wellness Alliance Network: $42,956 · OtherSound Wellness Alliance NetworkValdez Arts Council Inc: $30,000 · OtherValdez Arts Council IncVALDEZ YOUTH COURT: $12,000 · OtherVALDEZ YOUTH COURTStepping Stones Learning Center: $10,680 · OtherCOPPER RIVER HOCKEY CLUB: $9,850 · Other+1 more: $5,085 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $59,675 · EducationVALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $18,500 · Arts & CultureTERMINAL RADIO INC: $14,898 · Arts & CultureCORDOVA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $27,900 · Community ImprovementValdez United Way: $14,500 · PhilanthropyValdez Swim Club Inc: $8,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$396,254Other$219,733Education$59,675Arts & Culture$33,398Community Improvement$27,900Philanthropy$14,500Recreation & Sports$8,000

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 budgetEmergency Assistance and Food Bank of Valdez: $128,420 over 8y, 23% of budgetVALDEZ SENIOR CENTER INC: $107,810 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetAdvocates for Victims of Violence Inc: $99,424 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $59,675 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSound Wellness Alliance Network: $42,956 over 4y, 40% of budgetValdez Arts Council Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 90% of budgetCONNECTING TIES INC: $28,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCORDOVA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $27,900 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetVALDEZ MUSEUM & HISTORICAL ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION INC: $18,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCopper River Basin Child Advocacy Center: $14,900 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTERMINAL RADIO INC: $14,898 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetValdez United Way: $14,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetStepping Stones Learning Center: $10,680 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetValdez Swim Club Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 9.9% 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.

Copper Valley Electri…Providence Alaska Fou…The Alaska Community …Providence Health & S…Rasmuson FoundationAmazonsmile Foundation
Copper Valley Electric Association CommuAK22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Copper Valley Electric Association Commu · Providence Alaska Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Rasmuson 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 Valdez United Way funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valdez United Way. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Valdez United Way?

    Find your warmest path to Valdez United Way through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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