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ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC

ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2023
$8k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$45
Net assets
$18k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Alaska Design Forum Inc does

Mission

Educational Art and Design Lecture Series and Workshops Throughout Alaska

As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Educational Art and Design Lecture Series and Workshops Throughout Alaska

    $0 spent
  2. Educational Art and Design Lecture Series and Workshops Throughout Alaska

    $0 spent

The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($64k) Expenses 100 ($46k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2020 Revenue 101 ($65k) Expenses 166 ($77k) Net assets 71 ($28k)2021 Revenue 25 ($16k) Expenses 22 ($10k) Net assets 85 ($34k)2022 Revenue 50 ($32k) Expenses 32 ($15k) Net assets 128 ($51k)2023 Revenue 13 ($8k) Expenses 90 ($41k) Net assets 46 ($18k)
20192020202120222023
Revenue (13)Expenses (90)Net assets (46)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 2022 to 2023, from $51k to $18k (−64%).

$40k
$28k
$34k
$51k
$18k
20192020202120222023
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 18,808 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$18k
’19
−$12k
’20
$6k
’21
$17k
’22
−$33k
’23
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $19.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
1

1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 DESIGN FORUM 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.

Where its funders are

100% of ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 DESIGN FORUM INC's revenue fell 87% between 2019 and 2023.

Operating margin−396% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−40% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,279 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

Government funding ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $145k on record.

Federal$145k
grants $145kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$145k

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.

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In Alaska

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AK

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC?
ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $45 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($45). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $45 in grants to ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ALASKA DESIGN FORUM INC?
AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $45 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ALASKA DESIGN FORUM 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 FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 1 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