Alaska · Nonprofit
BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,520,404 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($967,649). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Bethel Community Services Foundation does
Mission
Community philanthropy - leadership, capacity building, fund development, and grantmaking.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
One of our biggest investments is improving the safety nets for unhoused people. The majority of our work in this area is in the form of implementing grants for the construction of a 24-unit permanent supportive housing complex for unhoused individuals. We completed the design for this in 2022/jan 2023. Construction was underway in 2023. The building will be finished in march 2024. Our next area of work is food security; we operated two large projects related to food security (regional and local food bank; prescription produce, etc). Finally, community philanthropy- raising funds for local nonprofits through campaigns such as bethelgives.
$6,195,144 spentof which $119,074 as grants$352,529 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,195,144.
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 2021 to 2022, from $5.9M to $7.4M (+26%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 2% · 2020 65% · 2021 21% · 2022 2% · 2023 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $39k → $965k.
8 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES 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
BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
57% 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 BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 41% · 2019 45% · 2020 44% · 2021 41% · 2022 80% · 2023 52% — 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
44% of BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
77% of BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $545k on record.
- Denali Commission$535k
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$10k
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 BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,520,404 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($967,649). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $3,520,404 in grants to BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $967,649 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BETHEL COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 2018–2024), and the filings of 15 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