Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Pacific University
Alaska Pacific University (Alaska) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,539,222 to it, the largest being ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,520,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $144M
What Alaska Pacific University does
Mission
Apu provides a world-class, hands-on, culturally-responsive educational experience in collaboration with our students, communities, and tribal partners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Academic instruction and support services including instructional labs, research, and public service programs
$14,858,445 spent$10,703,326 earned by the program59% of program spendingStudent and auxiliary services including housing, cafeteria, and student-focused activities
$6,331,977 spent$8,479,772 earned by the program25% of program spendingInstitutional financial aid - 610 students were served
$4,146,240 spentof which $4,146,240 as grants16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,336,662.
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 2017 to 2018, from $116M to $162M (+40%).
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 4% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 4% · 2021 20% · 2022 22% · 2023 14% · 2024 26% · 2025 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
30% of Alaska Pacific University’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Jim Roberts
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $381k → $1.4M.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.6M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Alaska Pacific University Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Alaska Pacific University raised.
From the IRS filings of Alaska Pacific University’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 funders by total. 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 Pacific University has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 Pacific University.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 66% · 2019 51% · 2020 70% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 28% — 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
33% of Alaska Pacific University'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
78% of Alaska Pacific University's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Pacific University runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Alaska Pacific University receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.3M on record — $21.3M federal, $5k state.
- Department of Education$8.7M
- National Science Foundation$4.7M
- Department of Labor$3.0M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$2.0M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$1.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$840k
- Employee Tuition Costs$5k
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 Pacific University
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
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Apu Foundation · exempt
- Cardinal Newman Professorship Found · exempt
- Dewolf Kellogg Trust · exempt
- ALASKA NATIVE TRIbAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alaska Pacific University: 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 Pacific University?
- Alaska Pacific University (Alaska) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,539,222 to it, the largest being ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC ($1,520,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alaska Pacific University have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $6,539,222 in grants to Alaska Pacific University, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Pacific University?
- ATWOOD FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,520,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Pacific University 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 32 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