Alaska · Nonprofit
First City Homeless Services
First City Homeless Services (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,497 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($98,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $298k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $253k
- Net assets
- $0
What First City Homeless Services does
Mission
To provide safe, non-judgmental shelter and services while offering pathways to self-sufficiency. FCHS believes that the solution to homelessness will only be achieved when using an integrated approach to people and the reasons they are experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Overnight Warming Center provides homeless persons with a clean, warm and dry place to rest at night.Day Shelter serves the homeless during the day. It is staffed with a full time manager who oversees the facility, evaluates clients, and provides referrals to services in the community.
$360,078 spentof which $31 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $360,078.
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 2022 to 2023, from $481k to $108k (−78%).
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: 2018 58% · 2019 50% · 2020 72% · 2021 72% · 2022 64% · 2023 77% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Jessica Pilcher
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell $54k → $31k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 First City Homeless Services’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
First City Homeless Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 First City Homeless Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 56% · 2020 99% · 2021 58% · 2022 71% · 2023 51% — 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.
Where its funders are
57% of First City Homeless Services's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $99k 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.
Government funding First City Homeless Services receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $250k on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$250k
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 First City Homeless Services
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 First City Homeless Services: 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 First City Homeless Services?
- First City Homeless Services (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $253,497 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($98,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does First City Homeless Services have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $253,497 in grants to First City Homeless Services, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of First City Homeless Services?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $98,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like First City Homeless Services 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 4 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