Alaska · Nonprofit
GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION
GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,285 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($184,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $404k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Goldbelt Heritage Foundation does
Mission
To preserve the culture, language, and customs of the native people of southeast alaska
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The following descriptions detail activities funded partly by federal financial assistance awarded to the Goldbelt Heritage Foundation (ghf) through multi-year grants beginning in 2022 and continuing through 2028. Ghf actively participates in regular meetings for leaders in language revitalization, facilitated by the alaska association of school boards. These meetings have fostered a coalition dedicated to language revitalization (see attached language declaration), united by a shared commitment to revitalizing language and knowledge. The coalition implements a unified approach to developing fluent speakers and collaborates to create resources for language teachers and learners. Through a grant from the sealaska corporation, ghf has surpassed its commitments by documenting 17 fluent birth speakers and capturing over 70 hours of immersive footage. Resources produced include lingt x?'inx? S (say it in lingt), a "phrase of the week" video series. Historic and contemporary video and audio content have been developed into standalone lingt learning resources, available on platforms such as radio, social media, youtube, and haa shuk tundatani (hstlearning.org), a site dedicated to our…
$2,436,051 spent$90,379 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,436,051.
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 2023 to 2024, from $638k to $1.6M (+157%).
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 88% · 2018 78% · 2019 87% · 2020 85% · 2021 76% · 2022 59% · 2023 71% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25k → $72k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION’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
GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
91% 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 GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 57% · 2022 60% · 2023 70% — 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
GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $192k 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
GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $23.0M on record.
- Department of Education$19.7M
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.0M
- Department of the Interior$243k
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 GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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 GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,285 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($184,300). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $404,285 in grants to GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $184,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLDBELT HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 7 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