Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Heat Smart
Alaska Heat Smart (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,642 to it, the largest being BENITO AND FRANCES GAGUINE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $139k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Alaska Heat Smart does
Mission
Alaska Heat Smart promotes energy efficiency, renewable energy and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Alaska Heat Smart promotes actions that mitigate the high cost of building heating systems through the adoption of energy efficient systems powered by renewable energy. The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Home Energy Advisory Services:AHS core program to educate, advise, and empower homeowners as they switch from fossil fuel heating to renewable energy heating. This AHS program has assisted over 1200 families and has a fuel-switching conversion rate of between 70% and 80%.
$63,603 spent8% of program spendingHousing and Urban Development Healthy Homes Program:Awarded to AHS in 2022, this three-year, $2M program, will improve the health and efficiency of 90 lower income homes in Juneau with fuel-switching assistance, electrical upgrades, weatherization, air sealing, and ventilation improvements.
$626,518 spent83% of program spendingCongressionally-Directed Spending Program: AHS CHIP (Clean Heat Incentive Program):Awarded to AHS by the Department of Energy via support from Alaska's senior senator Lisa Murkowski, the AHS CHIP serves lower to modest income households in both Juneau and Sitka, offering financial incentives to income-qualified applicants between $1,500 and $3,000 towards the cost of a heat pump installation.
$62,699 spent8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $752,820.
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.
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 $485k to $708k (+46%).
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 97% · 2024 81% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Alaska Heat Smart’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 0 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $29k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 Heat Smart’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 Heat Smart leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
48% 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 Heat Smart.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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 Heat Smart's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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.
Against its field
Alaska Heat Smart has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Alaska Heat Smart receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.
- Department of Energy$3.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 Heat Smart
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Heat Smart: 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 Heat Smart?
- Alaska Heat Smart (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $138,642 to it, the largest being BENITO AND FRANCES GAGUINE FOUNDATION ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alaska Heat Smart have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $138,642 in grants to Alaska Heat Smart, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Heat Smart?
- BENITO AND FRANCES GAGUINE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Heat Smart 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), 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