Alaska · Nonprofit
ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,120,021 to it, the largest being TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION ($2,581,087). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.0M
- Funders on record
- 84
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $17M
What Alaska Conservation Foundation does
Mission
Protects alaska's unique landscapes and ways of life by supporting conservation leaders, organizations, and initiatives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Collective conservation: as a proactive collaborative initiative, Alaska Conservation Foundation helps coordinate a network of statewide climate change adaptation efforts through the northern latitudes partnerships. These partnerships include federal, state, tribal, corporate, and other regional players that develop collaborative community-supported and indigenous-led solutions to issues brought about by our changing climate.
$2,348,244 spentof which $1,197,829 as grants48% of program spendingAlaska defense fund: Alaska Conservation Foundation supports grassroots advocacy efforts across alaska that aim to protect alaska's public lands, waters, wildlife, and the diverse cultures they sustain through our rapid response, travel fund, and general operating grant programs.
$1,210,633 spentof which $558,960 as grants$14,700 earned by the program25% of program spendingMovement building: to be effective, grassroots advocacy and collaborative conservation need a strong movement, which Alaska Conservation Foundation strives to make stronger by providing organizations and youth from around the state with trainings, facilitated meetings, internships, and key funding through strategic grants.
$546,963 spentof which $122,500 as grants11% of program spendingAll other programs.
$737,691 spentof which $263,568 as grants15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,843,531.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $13M to $15M (+18%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 42% · 2022 20% · 2023 39% · 2024 41% · 2025 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Board chair
Kerry Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $1.7M.
22 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 CONSERVATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 funders by total. 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 CONSERVATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 38% · 2019 30% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 31% · 2023 27% — 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
45% of ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 19 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.2M on record.
- Department of the Interior$3.2M
- Department of Agriculture$2.7M
- Denali Commission$1.2M
- National Science Foundation$220k
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 CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,120,021 to it, the largest being TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION ($2,581,087). 54 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $11,120,021 in grants to ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, 54 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION?
- TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,581,087 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALASKA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 84 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing