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ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC

ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,687,784 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,075,170). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.7M
Net assets
$3.2M
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 83%
01What it does

What Alaska Childrens Institute for the Performing Arts Inc does

Mission

To teach and train children in the performing arts

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To teach and train children in the performing arts

    $67,618 spent$102,144 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $67,618.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($267k) Expenses 100 ($195k) Net assets 100 ($277k)2021 Revenue 143 ($381k) Expenses 113 ($220k) Net assets 158 ($439k)2022 Revenue 534 ($1.4M) Expenses 121 ($235k) Net assets 588 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 263 ($702k) Expenses 125 ($243k) Net assets 753 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 493 ($1.3M) Expenses 106 ($206k) Net assets 1154 ($3.2M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (493)Expenses (106)Net assets (1154)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $3.9M (+87%).

$277k
$439k
$1.6M
$2.1M
$3.9M
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 25% · 2021 43% · 2022 1% · 2024 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’20
$162k
’21
$1.2M
’22
$459k
’23
$1.1M
’24
9.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20202021202220232024
Listed67888
Joined·+1+2+0+1
No longer listed·0101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $18k → $308k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

64%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 72% · 2022 84% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

75% of ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

78% of ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK
WA
MO
DE

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin84% · top quartile
Months of reserve9.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.

Federal$1.1M
grants $1.1Mcontracts $0
23
25
Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$1.0M
  • Denali Commission$150k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 56%Fundraising 11%

Governance

7
board members
86%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,687,784 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,075,170). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,687,784 in grants to ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC?
RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,075,170 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALASKA CHILDRENS INSTITUTE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alaska. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing