Alaska · Nonprofit
COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC
COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC (Alaska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,480,708 to it, the largest being ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ($5,358,752). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $7.5M
- Net assets
- $40M
What Copper River Native Association Inc does
Mission
To advance the overall economic, social, & cultural development of the people within the ahtna region.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Health department - the crna health department provides primary care, behavioral health and dental care for the copper river region of alaska. The organization provides direct community outreach through the use of community health aides and behavioral health aides in each of the communities served. The regional facility provides dental care, mental health therapy, and primary care services in a facility that is centrally located within the region. These programs are funded through awards from the indian health service and the state of alaska.
$16,481,555 spent$6,522,388 earned by the program75% of program spendingCommunity services - the crna tribal & community services department provides in facility services and community outreach services for tribal beneficiaries in the copper river region of alaska. Services include: inhome assistance, elder meals, community food bank, tobacco cessation, indian child welfare act coordination, management of a bureau of indian affairs general and education assistance program. These programs are funded through awards from the indian health service, state of alaska,bureau of indian affairs, and a federal title vi program grant.
$5,405,825 spent$323 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,887,380.
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.
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 $28M to $33M (+17%).
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 90% · 2018 81% · 2019 82% · 2020 83% · 2021 86% · 2022 80% · 2023 71% · 2024 69% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
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
Angela Vermillion
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $121k → $1.5M.
1 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION 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
COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 71% · 2021 89% · 2022 98% · 2023 57% — 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
25% of COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
98% of COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC'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 1 state 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
COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 102 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 102 unclassified nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $33.7M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$20.3M
- Department of Justice$5.9M
- Environmental Protection Agency$3.4M
- Department of the Interior$3.3M
- Department of Agriculture$736k
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 COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC?
- COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC (Alaska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,480,708 to it, the largest being ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ($5,358,752). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $7,480,708 in grants to COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION INC?
- ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM is the largest funder on record, with $5,358,752 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPPER RIVER NATIVE ASSOCIATION 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 14 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