Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Institute For Justice
Alaska Institute For Justice (Alaska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,430,369 to it, the largest being Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ($4,430,618). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $9.4M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What Alaska Institute For Justice does
Mission
Our mission is to promote and protect the human rights of all alaskans including immigrants, refugees and alsaska native communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research and policy - the research and policy institute is engaged in social and environmental justice research to inform public policy at the local, national, and international level.
$1,277,174 spent$1,295,246 earned by the program51% of program spendingLegal assistance - provide free and low-cost assistance to immigrants and refugees in all immigration applications including citizenship, permanent resident status, work permits, asylum, family-based petitions and immigration petitions for immigrant victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
$1,040,931 spent$1,147,196 earned by the program41% of program spendingLanguage interpreter center - the language interpreter center has four goals: train bilingual alaskans to be professional interpreters, train professionals to work with interpreters, design and implement language access plans and provide an interpreter referral service.
$203,389 spent$306,461 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,521,494.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $3.5M (+109%).
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 71% · 2018 59% · 2019 37% · 2020 48% · 2021 45% · 2022 39% · 2023 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Alaska Institute For Justice’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $947k → $1.6M.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 Institute For Justice’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 Institute For Justice leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
89% 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 Institute For Justice.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 53% · 2019 81% · 2020 34% · 2021 46% · 2022 86% · 2023 74% — 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
50% of Alaska Institute For Justice's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 Institute For Justice draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M 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 Institute For Justice holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Alaska Institute For Justice receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.9M on record — $5.9M federal, $170 state.
- Department of Justice$5.6M
- Department of Homeland Security$227k
- National Science Foundation$52k
- PROFESSIONAL SERVICES NON-IT$170
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 Institute For Justice
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
85% 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 Institute For Justice: 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 Institute For Justice?
- Alaska Institute For Justice (Alaska) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,430,369 to it, the largest being Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ($4,430,618). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alaska Institute For Justice have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $9,430,369 in grants to Alaska Institute For Justice, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Institute For Justice?
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc is the largest funder on record, with $4,430,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Institute For Justice 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 17 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