Alaska · Nonprofit
HELPING ALASKA
HELPING ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,496 to it, the largest being Golden Valley Electric Association Inc ($250,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $750k
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Helping Alaska does
Mission
Mobilize the church to transform lives and communities in the name of christ. Local churches come together as a network. It is a cooperative partnership that enables churches to make a lasting impact to help individuals, families, and children overcome their obstacles and set them on a path for success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The clearinghouse is the foundation of Helping Alaska, formerly known as love inc. Volunteers in the clearinghouse screen and verify requests for help and refers the request to a local church ministry, church volunteer, or community agency (to avoid service duplication). Through referrals, volunteers are given the opportunity to meet the practical needs of the poor and needy in the fairbanks north star borough without regard to race, creed, or religion.
$171,180 spent8% of program spendingLack of affordable housing causes many families to couch surf and live on the streets. Loving families is our solution to family homelessness in the tanana valley. Loving families is a rotating shelter model with over a dozen host congregations. Each week the program participants are cared for by volunteers at local churches. These families are provided a safe loving environment to safely raise their children while having their basic needs provided for.
$7,551 spent0% of program spendingFamilies go through hardships, and helping them through these times is important. Through grant agreements with the alaska housing finance corporation (ahfc), grant funds have been obtained in order to help the community through housing assistance. With these funds, the program is able to provide assistance to community members with areas of issue such as rental payments, mortgage payments, and utilities.
$1,818,388 spentof which $1,206,241 as grants89% of program spendingOther program services include programs like the furniture bank and community helpline. The furniture bank is a program that receives gently used, donated furniture, and then offers it back to the community through discounted sales or a voucher program for members in the community in need. The community helpline provides a an outlet for the community in times of hardship or when needing assistance, and is aimed at alleviating stress and ensuring the community knows they are not alone.
$42,649 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,039,768.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.6M to $1.4M (−46%).
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 9% · 2018 10% · 2019 10% · 2020 10% · 2021 10% · 2022 95% · 2023 83% · 2024 82%. 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $44k → $11k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 HELPING ALASKA’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
HELPING ALASKA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
75% 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 HELPING ALASKA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 46% · 2019 66% · 2020 33% · 2021 78% · 2022 41% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
56% of HELPING ALASKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
100% of HELPING ALASKA's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $287k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like HELPING ALASKA
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
99%
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 HELPING ALASKA: 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 HELPING ALASKA?
- HELPING ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $750,496 to it, the largest being Golden Valley Electric Association Inc ($250,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELPING ALASKA have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $750,496 in grants to HELPING ALASKA, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELPING ALASKA?
- Golden Valley Electric Association Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELPING ALASKA 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 11 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