Alaska · Nonprofit
ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,660 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($431,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 11,749 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Atwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Alaska Humanities Forumshared fundersportfolio match
- Museums Alaska Incshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $274k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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
ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 70% · 2023 87% — 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
25% of ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
87% of ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $68k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $461k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Atwood Foundation Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchAK · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Humanities Forumshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Museums Alaska Incshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Community Services Foundationshared funderslocalAK · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · funds 23 organizations near you
- The CIRI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Juneau Arts & Humanities Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Skaggs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Potlatch Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Na'ah Illahee Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coastal Villages Region FundlocalAK · funds 24 organizations near you
- United Way of Anchorageshared funderslocalAK · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $528,660 to it, the largest being Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc ($431,050). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $528,660 in grants to ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $431,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCTIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing