Alaska · Nonprofit
Alaska Wildlife Alliance
Alaska Wildlife Alliance (Alaska) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,134 to it, the largest being Wildlife Conservation Society ($155,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $512k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.0M
- Net assets
- $357k
What Alaska Wildlife Alliance does
Mission
Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and preparing climate adaptation strategies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Nature-based Resilience-Alaska Wildlife Alliance (AWA) collaboratively develops nature-based resilience plans for people and wildlife across Alaska that are founded in ecosystem health. We model ecological trajectories and work with private and public partners to develop nature-based solutions for habitat restoration and adaptation. This holistic approach improves communities resilience to environmental changes and ensures wildlife habitat into future generations.
$279,161 spentof which $123,732 as grants60% of program spendingVoices for Wildlife-AWA conducts rigorous research, educational programming, and advocacy in support of science-based, ecosystemic wildlife management in Alaska.
$112,553 spent24% of program spendingEndangered Species Recovery-AWA works with public and private partners to recover Alaskas threatened and endangered species.
$70,415 spentof which $7,500 as grants15% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $462,129.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $166k to $369k (+123%).
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 18% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of Alaska Wildlife Alliance’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. 3 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.
Chief executive
Nicole Schmitt
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $21k → $145k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Wildlife Alliance’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 Wildlife Alliance has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
72% 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 Wildlife Alliance.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 32% · 2019 97% · 2020 57% · 2021 43% · 2022 26% · 2023 22% — 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
29% of Alaska Wildlife Alliance's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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 Wildlife Alliance draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $274k 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 Wildlife Alliance has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Alaska Wildlife Alliance
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Wildlife Alliance: 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 Wildlife Alliance?
- Alaska Wildlife Alliance (Alaska) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,030,134 to it, the largest being Wildlife Conservation Society ($155,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alaska Wildlife Alliance have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,030,134 in grants to Alaska Wildlife Alliance, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alaska Wildlife Alliance?
- Wildlife Conservation Society is the largest funder on record, with $155,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alaska Wildlife Alliance 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 30 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