Alaska · Nonprofit
ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,244,267 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,432,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.2M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Alaska Geographic Association does
Mission
Connects people to alaska's public lands through the creation and delivery of educational products and programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Distribution of educational and interpretive materials to visitors and users of alaska's public lands. Approximately one million individuals were provided information about 35 national parks, forests, and other publicly held lands.
$1,333,250 spent$4,003,164 earned by the program40% of program spendingDevelopment and presentation of experiential education programs for teachers, youth, guides and the general public. Programs are both daily and multi-day in length. Many are available for college and continuing education credits. Programs are offered in national parks, forests, refuges, and other public lands in alaska. More than 100 programs are offered.
$628,075 spent$201,682 earned by the program19% of program spendingProduction of visitor guides, classroom curriculum, books, films, and other educational products and materials. Eight or more distinct visitor guides, two or more books and/or films, and various other educational publications produced annually in partnership with three federal and state land management agencies for use by visitors, educational institutions, and the general public.
$1,379,280 spentof which $916,649 as grants$11,200 earned by the program41% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,340,605.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2024 to 2025, from $6.8M to $9.2M (+34%).
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: 2022 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
31% of ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Andy Hall
Executive director
Board chair
Paul Anderson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $107k → $114k.
5 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION’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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 78% · 2019 33% · 2020 65% · 2021 78% · 2022 53% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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
21% of ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of the Interior$2.4M
- Department of Agriculture$340k
- Department of State$15k
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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION?
- ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION (Alaska) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,244,267 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ($1,432,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $2,244,267 in grants to ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION?
- NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,432,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALASKA GEOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 22 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