Alaska · Nonprofit
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,200 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($183,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,778 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
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 fundersportfolio match
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Alaska Humanities Forumshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 2% · 2020 63% · 2021 36% · 2022 9% · 2023 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $126k → $10k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 66% 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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 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
CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
66% 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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 78% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
66% of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC'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 $94k that is directly attributable, 90% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183k 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Atwood Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDE · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Humanities Forumshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cook Inlet Tribal Councillocalportfolio matchAK · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Homer FoundationlocalAK · funds 36 organizations near you
- Gillam Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anchorage Mayors Charity Ballportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The CIRI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ellsworth Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mta Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kpccc Group InclocalAK · funds 16 organizations near you
- United Way of Anchorageshared fundersAK · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
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.
Government funding CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $25k on record.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$25k
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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC
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.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC?
- CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,200 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($183,200). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $277,200 in grants to CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY INC?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $183,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHALLENGER LEARNING CENTER OF ALASKA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 4funders 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