Alaska · Nonprofit
AWARE Inc
AWARE Inc (Alaska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,666,462 to it, the largest being GASTINEAU HUMAN SERVICES ($1,401,742). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $7.1M
What AWARE Inc does
Mission
To provide safe shelter and supportive services for survivors of domestic or sexual violence; and to effect the social, political, and legal changes needed to eliminate oppression, gender violence, and violence against children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
AWARE's DV/SA services include emergency safe shelter, 24 hour crisis line response, in person and remote safety planning, legal advocacy and court accompaniment, 24 hour hospital response, children's advocacy and groups, child and adult trauma counseling, transitional housing, support groups for adults and a variety of housing advocacy and programs to ensure long term stability.
$2,470,881 spentof which $74,953 as grants$225,843 earned by the program78% of program spendingAWARE's violence prevention programs include primary and secondary prevention strategies organized into pathways that involve the community. AWARE facilitates the Haa Toch Lichesh community prevention group that implements community-based strategies for resilience, healing and wellness. These strategies include equity-based learning opportunities with indigenous healers and elders, cultural wellness activities, youth-focus groups focused on diversity and inclusion, and pathways for men to hold leadership roles in the movement to end gender violence.
$598,412 spent19% of program spendingAWARE's Juneau choice & accountability program (JCAP) works with men who have used abusive or coercive tactics with their intimate partners. Most of the referrals to the program come from the court system after a domestic violence conviction, or are part of recommendations from a probation officer. This 24 week program includes applicable lessons on communication, conflict resolution, empathy and skill-building exercises that emphasize equity and safety.
$112,284 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,181,577.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $6.0M to $6.7M (+11%).
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 68% · 2018 70% · 2019 81% · 2020 73% · 2021 79% · 2022 66% · 2023 79% · 2024 87% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $307k → $885k.
7 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 AWARE Inc’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
AWARE Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 AWARE Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 43% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 32% · 2022 41% · 2023 27% — 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
73% of AWARE Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
91% of AWARE Inc's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding AWARE Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$898k
- Denali Commission$323k
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 AWARE Inc
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AWARE Inc: 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 AWARE Inc?
- AWARE Inc (Alaska) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,666,462 to it, the largest being GASTINEAU HUMAN SERVICES ($1,401,742). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AWARE Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $4,666,462 in grants to AWARE Inc, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AWARE Inc?
- GASTINEAU HUMAN SERVICES is the largest funder on record, with $1,401,742 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AWARE Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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