· Public charity
Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation
The primary exempt purpose is the provision of medical services to area residents through a partnership with the mat-su valley medical center and grants to community organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 127 grants below total $21,498,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $24,437,734 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,939,134 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $99k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k36 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+22 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAYBREAK INCORPORATED | $1,800,709 |
| LINKS MAT-SU PARENT RESOURCE CENTER | $1,593,780 |
| SUNSHINE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $1,370,057 |
| VALLEY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC | $1,295,500 |
| CCS EARLY LEARNING | $1,236,140 |
| MAT-SU TRAILS AND PARKS FOUNDATION | $1,043,102 |
| SKEETAWK | $1,002,000 |
| SET FREE ALASKA INC MAT-SU | $914,722 |
| RECOVER ALASKA | $600,000 |
| PACIFIC NW UNIV OF HEALTH SCIENCES | $552,228 |
| SUNSHINE STATION CHILDCARE CENTER | $534,125 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $504,930 |
| TRUE NORTH RECOVERY INC | $451,111 |
| MAT-SU HEALTH SERVICES INC | $400,000 |
| ALASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $374,052 |
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, $10.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- SCSunshine Community Health Center Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +114% · 29% of their budget
- LMLINKS MAT-SU PARENT RESOURCE CENTER LLC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +32% · 39% of their budget
- MTMAT-SU TRAILS & PARKS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +252% · 77% of their budget
Funded once
- M2MAT-SU 2024 ARCTIC WINTER GAMES HOSone grant, 2023 · $275k · revenue +7%
- LLLake Louise Snowmachine Club Incone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -61% · 63% of their budget
- TCTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST CENTERSone grant, 2022 · $170k
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.
Building partnerships, building trails. Working to build trails across the state and build capacity for trail organizations.
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…
To operate an engagement center which provides peer support, resources and consumer directed programs to help mental health consumers, homeless persons and those recovering from substance abuse.
Challenge Alaska improves the lives of people with disabilities, their families, and the community through adaptive sports, therapeutic recreation, and education.
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,…
To advance solutions that build the resilience and sustainability of Alaska, for its current and future residents and the natural systems upon which they depend.
To assist low income individuals and families with housing and housing improvements in Alaska.
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alaska Youth and Family Network and the most unlike its peers is Euthus Ministries. 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Sunshine Community Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LINKS MAT-SU PARENT RESOURCE CENTER LLC ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU TRAILS & PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RESIDENTIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Wasilla Area Seniors Inc ↗
- Who funds PALMER SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Set Free Alaska Inc ↗
- Who funds HATCHER ALPINE XPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds Onward and Upward ↗
- Who funds BLOOD N FIRE MINISTRY OF ALASKA ↗
- Who funds CCS Early Learning ↗
- Who funds Daybreak Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY TRANSIT ↗
- Who funds Willow Library Association ↗
- Who funds Cook Inlet Tribal Council ↗
- Who funds THE FORAKER GROUP ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Transit ↗
- Who funds ALASKA FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Co-Occurring Disorders Institute Inc dba Compassionate Directions ↗
- Who funds Sunshine Station Child Care Center ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds Mat-Su Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MAT-SU YOUTH HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FRONTLINE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds True North Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds UPPER SUSITNA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ALASKA YOUTH AND FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Connect Palmer Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Alaska Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Recover 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: Rasmuson Foundation · The Alaska Community Foundation · Mta Foundation Inc · Matanuska Electric Association Charitable Foundation · Alaska Children's Trust · Richard L and Diane M Block Foundation · United Way of Matanuska-Susitna Borough · The Carr Foundation Inc · United Way of Anchorage · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Mat-Su Trails & Parks 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 Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundation 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.
- Postpartum Support International — 43% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
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.