Alaska · Nonprofit
Ilisagvik College
Ilisagvik College (Alaska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,404,142 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($1,728,696). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Ilisagvik College does
Mission
Ilisagvik College provides quality post-secondary academic, vocational and technical education in a learning environment that perpetuates and strengthens iupiat culture, language, values and traditions. It is dedicated to providing well-educated and trained individuals who meet the human resources needs of the north slope employers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To provide high quality education and vocational/technical training that helps students gain employment.
$15,715,995 spentof which $527,068 as grants$1,367,568 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,715,995.
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 2020 to 2021, from $16M to $28M (+69%).
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 84% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 92% · 2022 90% · 2023 38% · 2024 30% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Ilisagvik College’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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
Caitlin Walls
Executive Director of Inst. Ad
Board chair
Heather Dingman
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $1.1M → $398k.
5 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 Ilisagvik College’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
Ilisagvik College has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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
69% 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 Ilisagvik College.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 74% · 2019 76% · 2020 35% · 2021 47% · 2022 48% · 2023 50% — 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
53% of Ilisagvik College's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
Ilisagvik College draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Ilisagvik College runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Ilisagvik College receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $47.1M on record.
- Department of Education$19.6M
- Department of the Interior$18.4M
- Department of Agriculture$7.2M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
- National Science Foundation$290k
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 Ilisagvik College
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ilisagvik College Foundation · exempt
- North Slope Borough · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Ilisagvik College: 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 Ilisagvik College?
- Ilisagvik College (Alaska) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,404,142 to it, the largest being AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ($1,728,696). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Ilisagvik College have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $5,404,142 in grants to Ilisagvik College, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Ilisagvik College?
- AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,728,696 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Ilisagvik College 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing