Alaska · Nonprofit
COASTALASKA INC
COASTALASKA INC (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,551,553 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,525,141). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Coastalaska Inc does
Mission
To provide southeast alaska with public radio while enhancing the ability of member stations to serve our audience.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Locally owned public media comprised of six public radio stations, providing news, health and safety alerts and quality cultural and educational programming. Community service to non-profit agencies and cultural entities through messaging and daily interviews. Underserved and diverse populations are a special focus of cultural programming. The potential listening audience includes 75,000 persons, based on the potential listening audience in the population area of southeast and aleutians, alaska.
$3,139,091 spent$1,737,526 earned by the program95% of program spendingService bureau providing services, especially engineering and membership mailing and data tracking, as well as some financial services for 26 public media stations in alaska.
$155,300 spent$381,479 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,294,391.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.3M to $5.0M (+51%).
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 17% · 2018 50% · 2019 52% · 2020 22% · 2021 7% · 2022 18% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $142k → $179k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 COASTALASKA 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
COASTALASKA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 COASTALASKA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2019 100% · 2020 51% · 2021 60% · 2022 100% · 2023 74% — 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
50% of COASTALASKA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
COASTALASKA INC draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $159k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like COASTALASKA 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
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 COASTALASKA 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 COASTALASKA INC?
- COASTALASKA INC (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,551,553 to it, the largest being CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING ($1,525,141). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COASTALASKA INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $2,551,553 in grants to COASTALASKA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COASTALASKA INC?
- CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING is the largest funder on record, with $1,525,141 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COASTALASKA 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 9 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing