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COOK INLETKEEPER

COOK INLETKEEPER (Alaska) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,749,972 to it, the largest being TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION ($640,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$974k
Funders on record
41
Grants received
$4.7M
Net assets
$213k
31/41 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Cook Inletkeeper does

Mission

To protect the cook inlet watershed and the life it sustains.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Salmon habitat: the purpose of this program is to protect alaska's wild salmon and their habitat in a changing climate and includes science, advocacy and education.

    $104,712 spent$27,576 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  2. Local resilience: the purpose of this program is to help build strong, engaged communities and diverse economies in the cook inlet watershed and includes our local foods program, civic engagement trainings, and outreach.

    $155,673 spent$46,362 earned by the program
    25% of program spending
  3. Capacity: this program ensures a healthy organization and enables Cook Inletkeeper to conduct work in all program areas related to its mission.

    $229,185 spent
    37% of program spending
  4. Energy transition: the purpose of this program is to accelerate the transition to an equitable, decarbonized energy future. Our work included helping build an equitable energy system and reducing fossil fuel production and pollution.

    $134,496 spent$13,992 earned by the program
    22% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $624,066.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($673k)2018 Revenue 85 ($1.1M) Expenses 114 ($1.4M) Net assets 51 ($346k)2019 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 120 ($1.5M) Net assets 8 ($55k)2020 Revenue 92 ($1.1M) Expenses 79 ($953k) Net assets 35 ($236k)2021 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 85 ($1.0M) Net assets 56 ($378k)2022 Revenue 91 ($1.1M) Expenses 93 ($1.1M) Net assets 55 ($372k)2023 Revenue 87 ($1.1M) Expenses 97 ($1.2M) Net assets 39 ($261k)2024 Revenue 79 ($974k) Expenses 85 ($1.0M) Net assets 32 ($213k)
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Revenue (79)Expenses (85)Net assets (32)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $743k to $419k (−44%).

$743k
$419k
$173k
$448k
$443k
$409k
$358k
$276k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 11% · 2018 6% · 2019 16% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 17% · 2023 20% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

90% of COOK INLETKEEPER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,629 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$27k
’17
−$328k
’18
−$290k
’19
$181k
’20
$136k
’21
−$6k
’22
−$107k
’23
−$47k
’24
2.9
months of
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.

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Listed1211121289910
Joined·+0+1+3+0+1+2+2
No longer listed·1034021
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $406k → $426k.

9 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 COOK INLETKEEPER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. 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

COOK INLETKEEPER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

56% 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 COOK INLETKEEPER.

13%
largest funder
32%
top three
~16
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 41% · 2019 32% · 2020 18% · 2021 24% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% — 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

48% of COOK INLETKEEPER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

COOK INLETKEEPER draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 11 states in all.

AK
WA
WI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
DC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

COOK INLETKEEPER's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 21 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−5% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Government funding COOK INLETKEEPER receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.

Federal$1.2M
grants $1.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Agriculture$938k
  • Department of the Interior$219k

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 COOK INLETKEEPER

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.

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Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

61% of spending goes to programs.

Program 61%Management 31%Fundraising 8%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

81%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COOK INLETKEEPER?
COOK INLETKEEPER (Alaska) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,749,972 to it, the largest being TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION ($640,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COOK INLETKEEPER have?
IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,749,972 in grants to COOK INLETKEEPER, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COOK INLETKEEPER?
TRUE NORTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COOK INLETKEEPER 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 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