Alaska · Nonprofit
GIRDWOOD INC
GIRDWOOD INC (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,020 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($1,060,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $726k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Girdwood Inc does
Mission
Girdwood, inc. Is organized exclusively for educational and charitable purposes to facilitate the public service needs of the girdwood valley and to pursue other educational and charitable purposes that will foster the economic health and vitality of the region and its inhabitants.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Restoration of the roundhouse at alyeska including interior, exterior, and installation of exhibits creating a public museum detailing area history and winter recreation at mt. Alyeska ski area. Serves girdwood and turnagain arm (approx. 3,720), visitors from alaska and out of state visitors numbering over 1 million each year. Open for visitors in 2008. Ongoing operations and maintenance.
$143,130 spent$29,592 earned by the program15% of program spendingSupport the girdwood childcare building project. Collect public contributions to support the community effort to build a childcare facility that would serve the girdwood community (2,720) and adjoining areas (1,000).
$695,902 spent72% of program spendingSupport local effort to complete a transparent, inclusive review of the girdwood area plan which will guide girdwood land use.
$89,249 spent9% of program spendingAdaptive ski program: support adaptive ski program at local ski area. More than 100 individuals are involved in the program. No activity in 2024. Bahnson memorial garden: ongoing funding and maintenance for the bahnson memorial garden completed in 2017. The garden is central to the community and used by residents as well as visitors. Girdwood trails: support and maintenance for the girdwood trail system used by residents and visitors to the community. This includes rehab to the hand tram and other trailwork. Estimated 10,000 individuals served. Girdwood playground: ongoing funding and maintenance for girdwood playground completed in 2006. Girdwood library & community center: support girdwood library and community center building project. Collect public contributions to support the project completed in 2008. Serves the girdwood community (2,720), adjoining areas (1,000), visitors from anchorage (290,000 population) and out of state visitors numbering more than 1 million per year. Skateboard park: support local effort to fundraise to renovate and maintain local skateboard park serving users from girdwood and surrounding communities (3,720) as well as visitors to the area. Tennis…
$41,945 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $970,226.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $3.5M (+90%).
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 6% · 2018 29% · 2019 21% · 2020 50% · 2021 20% · 2022 88% · 2023 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of GIRDWOOD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $7k → $530k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 GIRDWOOD 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
GIRDWOOD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 GIRDWOOD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2023 100% — 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
95% of GIRDWOOD 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. $289k 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
GIRDWOOD INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GIRDWOOD 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
92% 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 GIRDWOOD 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 GIRDWOOD INC?
- GIRDWOOD INC (Alaska) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,814,020 to it, the largest being Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread ($1,060,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRDWOOD INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,814,020 in grants to GIRDWOOD INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRDWOOD INC?
- Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread is the largest funder on record, with $1,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRDWOOD 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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