Alaska · Nonprofit
KAWERAK INC
KAWERAK INC (Alaska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,780,573 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $87M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Kawerak Inc does
Mission
Promote the social and economic welfare of members of iras and traditional councils
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community services division: the community services division csd provides public safety and wellness services and other programs designed to improve the economy financial management and infrastructure of the regions communities. Csd provides services to address the needs of children and families throughout the bering strait region. It also includes the kawerak transportation program which provides comprehensive transportation services throughout the region.
$39,544,717 spentof which $15,872,113 as grants57% of program spendingEducation and employment supportive services division: the education and employment supportive services division eessd is designed to increase the number of trained educated and employed tribal members and to provide early childhood services to address the needs of children and families. Kawerak provides financial support comprehensive case management education and training and technical assistance to assist tribal members in reaching their educational objectives or secure employment or complete employment goals to become self-sufficient.
$18,694,221 spentof which $3,208,087 as grants$55,757 earned by the program27% of program spendingNatural resources division: the natural resources division nrd conducts research projects and advocates for tribes continued subsistence uses in federal and state resource management decision making and encourages the use of traditional knowledge regarding natural resources including the ecosystem land fish animals and birds in the bering strait region.
$6,815,427 spentof which $84,123 as grants10% of program spendingAdministration division: the administration division oversees operations develops strategic actions and facilitates interagency partnerships.
$2,812,642 spentof which $1,858,535 as grants4% of program spendingCultural and regional development division: the cultural and regional development division crdd includes the following programs: community planning and development; eskimo heritage program; katirvik cultural center; and planning. Each program plays an integral part of organizational and tribal capacity building to provide services to the people tribes and communities by offering business development community engagement economic strengthening language revitalization cultural education advocacy grant acquisition and long-range planning.
$2,083,933 spentof which $10,800 as grants3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $69,950,940.
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 2020 to 2021, from $62M to $88M (+43%).
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 94% · 2018 91% · 2019 92% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 78% · 2023 88% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Frank Katchatag
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $416k → $4.5M.
9 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $923k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Norton Sound Economic Development Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money KAWERAK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of KAWERAK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
KAWERAK INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
63% 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 KAWERAK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2020 40% · 2021 27% · 2022 77% · 2023 48% — 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.
How long its funders stay
58% of KAWERAK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
KAWERAK INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M 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.
Government funding KAWERAK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $346.8M on record.
- Department of Transportation$143.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$72.2M
- Department of the Interior$67.2M
- Department of Education$18.0M
- Department of Justice$12.2M
- Environmental Protection Agency$10.5M
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 KAWERAK 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Tumet Industries LLC · partnership
- Unaatuq LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KAWERAK INC?
- KAWERAK INC (Alaska) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,780,573 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($8,000,000). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KAWERAK INC have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $22,780,573 in grants to KAWERAK INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KAWERAK INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KAWERAK 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 35 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