Alaska · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK
FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,491 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $116k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $418k
What Friends of Dick Proenneke and Lake Clark National Park does
Mission
Provide Support for Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Purchased private land with wilderness characteristics within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve for inclusion in the park. Raised funds for endowment to protect and preserve Dick Proenneke's Cabin and the Twin Lakes basin. Provided aid to the National Park Service to pay for salary and travel for park ranger stationed at Twin Lakes. Funded support for park ice patch archeological survey. Funded science camp for youth. Funded a visitor accessible day use picnic site on Tommy Island of Lake Clark. Funded the creation of a recreational water trail on Lake Clark.
$0 spentof which $30,000 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2020 to 2021, from $108k to $198k (+82%).
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.
100% of FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Fred Hirschmann
Chairman and Treasurer
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $3k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK’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
FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
28% 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 FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14k 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK
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.
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK?
- FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK (Alaska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,491 to it, the largest being CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION ($20,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $50,491 in grants to FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK?
- CONRAD N HILTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF DICK PROENNEKE AND LAKE CLARK NATIONAL PARK 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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