Alaska · Nonprofit
GREATER ANCHORAGE INC
GREATER ANCHORAGE INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $802k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $177k
What Greater Anchorage Inc does
Mission
The mission of greater anchorage, inc. Is to provide entertainment, education and cultural growth primarily through the production of fur rendezvous. The rendezvous festival is designed to provide enjoyment for the community that attracts intra-state, national, and international tourism, thereby creating a positive economic impact. Additionally, as approved, greater anchorage may take on other activities that are in harmony with the primary mission of the organization.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Fur rendezvous - this event started in 1936 as a 3-day festivalestablished to coincide with the time that the miners and trappers cameto town with their winter's yield. It began as a 3-day sportstournament on february 15th-17th, 1936 and featured skiing, hockey,basketball, boxing, and a children's sled dog race down fourth avenue.nearly the entire population of anchorage turned out for the bonfireand torchlit parade. Fur rendezvous remains a highly anticipated timeof year, has earned national and itnernational notoriety, and visitorsfrom throughout the world descend on anchorage every february for theevent.
$695,466 spent$405,879 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $695,466.
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 2022 to 2023, from $169k to $262k (+55%).
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 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 6% · 2021 24% · 2023 10% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of GREATER ANCHORAGE INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
John Mccleary
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GREATER ANCHORAGE 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.
Where its funders are
100% of GREATER ANCHORAGE INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
GREATER ANCHORAGE INC receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREATER ANCHORAGE 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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER ANCHORAGE 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 GREATER ANCHORAGE INC?
- GREATER ANCHORAGE INC (Alaska) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $11,000 to it, the largest being ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM ($11,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER ANCHORAGE INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $11,000 in grants to GREATER ANCHORAGE INC.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER ANCHORAGE INC?
- ALASKA NATIVE TRIBAL HEALTH CONSORTIUM is the largest funder on record, with $11,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER ANCHORAGE 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.
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 1 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