Alaska · Nonprofit
Chugach Regional Resources Commission
Chugach Regional Resources Commission (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,401,556 to it, the largest being SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE ($649,241). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.1M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Chugach Regional Resources Commission does
Mission
The Chugach Regional Resources Commission (the Commission) was established for the purpose of providing formal advocacy to manage natural resources in ways consistent with the cultural traditions of the Chugach Native people.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To manage natural resources in ways consistent with the cultural traditions of the Chugach Native people.
$4,334,121 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,334,121.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $6.9M (+56%).
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 92% · 2018 78% · 2019 78% · 2020 81% · 2021 85% · 2022 94% · 2023 83% · 2024 73% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Willow Hetrich
Executive Director
Board chair
Boyd Selanoff
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $57k → $189k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $417k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Chugachmiut). These are real filings, and they are not money Chugach Regional Resources Commission raised.
From the IRS filings of Chugach Regional Resources Commission’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
Chugach Regional Resources Commission leans on a few funders — its largest provides 27% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Chugach Regional Resources Commission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 74% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 77% · 2022 89% · 2023 61% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of Chugach Regional Resources Commission's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
Chugach Regional Resources Commission draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $51k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Chugach Regional Resources Commission receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.2M on record.
- Department of Commerce$6.6M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.9M
- Department of the Interior$1.9M
- Environmental Protection Agency$1.9M
- Denali Commission$692k
- National Science Foundation$98k
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 Chugach Regional Resources Commission
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 Chugach Regional Resources Commission: 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 Chugach Regional Resources Commission?
- Chugach Regional Resources Commission (Alaska) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,401,556 to it, the largest being SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE ($649,241). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Chugach Regional Resources Commission have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,401,556 in grants to Chugach Regional Resources Commission, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Chugach Regional Resources Commission?
- SEWARD ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MARINE SCIENCE is the largest funder on record, with $649,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Chugach Regional Resources Commission 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 13 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