Alaska · Nonprofit
ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION
ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,298 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($187,716). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $438k
- Net assets
- $518k
What Alaska Resource Education does
Mission
Alaska Resource Educations mission is to educate students about alaskas natural resources.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Distributed to alaska schools the "alaska resources kit", an alaska-specific, interdisciplinary set of curriculum modules, lessons, activities and support materials on alaska's resources; provided training for teachers; and provided other activities to promote students' knowledge about alaska's natural resources.
$696,188 spent$18,170 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $696,188.
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 $520k to $1.1M (+108%).
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: 2020 24% · 2021 37% · 2022 34% · 2023 42% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Clayton Gooden
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $4k → $48k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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: $150k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Columbus Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION’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 RESOURCE EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 RESOURCE EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 50% · 2019 100% · 2020 68% · 2021 49% · 2022 82% · 2023 88% — 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
40% of ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 RESOURCE EDUCATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $194k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 RESOURCE EDUCATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $700k on record.
- Denali Commission$700k
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 RESOURCE EDUCATION
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION: 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 RESOURCE EDUCATION?
- ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $438,298 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($187,716). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $438,298 in grants to ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $187,716 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALASKA RESOURCE EDUCATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 12 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