Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Village Initiatives
Alaska Village Initiatives (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,333,564 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ($808,861). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $-271604
What Alaska Village Initiatives does
Mission
Alaska Village Initiatives AVI, a self-supporting corporation organized in 1968 by and for rural Alaskans, promotes the economic well-being of rural Alaskans through economic development, assistance, networking, advocacy, and education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Agriculture Fund: AVI provided services to Native farmers, ranchers, and other agriculture producers in the following areas: Business planning, capacity building, training opportunities in financial management, policy and procedures , and grant writing, agriculture regrants to Tribal Conservation Districts, and planning for farms or large scale gardens.
$1,485,171 spent$53,529 earned by the program96% of program spendingRural Small Business Services: Provided technical assistance to the Organization's membership base in the area of business assistance, computer training and assistance, and board of directors training. The cornerstone of technical assistance is to ensure that rural business owners are able to formulate and execute business plans, devise market strategies, and interpret financial information in order to build, manage, and operate ongoing successful businesses.
$54,315 spent$93,582 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,539,486.
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 2018 to 2019, from $2.4M to $1.2M (−50%).
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 48% · 2018 33% · 2019 91% · 2020 67% · 2021 67% · 2022 14% · 2023 2% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Alaska Village Initiatives’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Charles Parker
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $35k → $387k.
From the IRS filings of Alaska Village Initiatives’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 Village Initiatives leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 Village Initiatives.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 83% · 2022 95% · 2023 60% — 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
Alaska Village Initiatives draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 Village Initiatives is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Alaska Village Initiatives receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.8M on record.
- Department of Commerce$9.5M
- Department of Agriculture$5.8M
- Department of the Interior$436k
- Denali Commission$44k
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 Village Initiatives
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- AVI Holding Inc · exempt
- Alaska Village Environmental Services · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Alaska Village Initiatives: 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 Village Initiatives?
- Alaska Village Initiatives (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,333,564 to it, the largest being NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS ($808,861). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alaska Village Initiatives have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $1,333,564 in grants to Alaska Village Initiatives, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Village Initiatives?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CONSERVATION DISTRICTS is the largest funder on record, with $808,861 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Village Initiatives 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 7 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