Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission
Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,284 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($890,936). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission does
Mission
The Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Commission), based in Utqiagvik, Alaska, is a nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of preserving and enhancing the marine resources of Bowhead whales including protection of habitat, Eskimo subsistence Bowhead whaling, and the Eskimo culture and traditions associated with Bowhead whales as well as whaling through research and educational activities related to Bowhead whales.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Bowhead Preservation - Accounts for all the activities related to the protection of habitat, Eskimo subsistence, and Eskimo culture and traditions associated with Bowhead whales.
$2,526,363 spent$35,703 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,526,363.
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.
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 $1.0M to $1.5M (+42%).
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 79% · 2018 66% · 2019 67% · 2020 73% · 2021 56% · 2022 54% · 2023 72% · 2024 80% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
John Hopson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $11k → $158k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 Eskimo Whaling Commission’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 Eskimo Whaling Commission leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
72% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 95% · 2019 86% · 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 79% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
70% of Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission'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. Of the $391k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $897k 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.
Government funding Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.7M on record.
- Department of Commerce$4.7M
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 Eskimo Whaling Commission
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission: 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 Eskimo Whaling Commission?
- Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,288,284 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($890,936). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,288,284 in grants to Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission?
- Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $890,936 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission 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 6 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