Alaska · Nonprofit
INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA
INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,617,098 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($961,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $924k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska does
Mission
Icc alaska exists as the unified voice and collective spirit of alaskan inuit, to promote, protect and advance inuit culture and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Increasing capacity for icc alaska to pursue an inuit vision for the future of the arctic ocean and adjacent waters. Through this work, icc alaska is facilitating engagement of alaskan inuit leadership and indigenous knowledge holders in pursuit of an inuit vision of the future of the central arctic ocean and adjacent waters, and asserting a strong voice for inuit in decisionmaking of when, where and how activity takes place in the central arctic ocean and adjacent waters, to ensure that inuit culture, traditions, way of life and economics are central to any decision-making.
$212,162 spent44% of program spendingInuit engagement in the central arctic ocean fisheries agreement (caofa) implementation. On june 25, 2021, the agreement to prevent unregulated high seas fisheries in the central arctic ocean (caofa) entered into force. The agreement is the first of its kind, a multilateral and legally binding agreement, that calls for taking a precautionary approach to protect and prevent unregulated fishing in the high seas portion of the central arctic ocean. The agreement recognizes the interests of arctic indigenous peoples and the importance of involving them and their communities. Indigenous knowledge (ik), alongside science is also recognized and will be included. The united states has included alaskan inuit as a part of the delegation. Facilitation and coordination of alaskan inuit from the north slope, northwest arctic, bering strait, and yukon kuskokwim delta regions in alaska, has been done by inuit circumpolar council (icc) alaska.
$105,456 spent22% of program spendingImplementation support of the arctic council coastal biodiversity monitoring plan in the u.s. The coastal biodiversity monitoring plan (cbmp) is a project under the arctic council's conservation of arctic flora and fauna's (caff) working group. The cbmp aims to address the adverse impacts of rapidly changing alaska arctic coastal ecosystems on food security, arctic coastal communities, and indigenous peoples. Icc alaska plays a vital role in implementing and coordinating the cbmp in the us arctic region, focusing on the co-production of knowledge of indigenous knowledge (ik) and scientific knowledge.
$65,021 spent14% of program spendingAll other programs.
$94,900 spent20% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $477,539.
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 $1.2M to $1.5M (+24%).
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 63% · 2018 55% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 62% · 2022 62% · 2023 67% · 2024 61% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $13k → $48k.
6 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-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
INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
71% 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 INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 91% · 2019 57% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 59% · 2023 69% — 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
20% of INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $135k 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.
Against its field
INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.7M on record.
- Department of Commerce$1.1M
- National Science Foundation$597k
- Department of Health and Human Services$443k
- Department of the Interior$343k
- Department of Education$269k
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 INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA?
- INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA (Alaska) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,617,098 to it, the largest being OCEAN CONSERVANCY ($961,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $1,617,098 in grants to INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-ALASKA?
- OCEAN CONSERVANCY is the largest funder on record, with $961,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INUIT CIRCUMPOLAR COUNCIL-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.
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 12 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