Alaska · Nonprofit
KUAC FRIENDS GROUP
KUAC FRIENDS GROUP (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,977 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($156,689). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $514k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Kuac Friends Group does
Mission
Kuac tells stories that would otherwise go untold; brings awareness to issues that would otherwise go overlooked; presents performances that would otherwise be inaccessible. Kuac educates every generation. At kuac, we create radio and television programming that is thought-provoking, trustworthy, and even life-changing - connecting alaska to the world and the world to alaska.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During fy24 Kuac Friends Group supported the broadcast services of kuac fm and tv, providing public radio and television programming throughout interior alaska on one radio channel and six television channels to over 100,000 alaskans in the state and beyond. Kuac Friends Group supports kuac fm and kuac tv's ability to educate, entertain and inspire alaskans of all ages by providing programming 24 hours a day/seven days a week/365 days a year. Kuac's broadcast signals originate in fairbanks and feed fm translators in nome, tok, healy, nenana, delta junction, bettles, and eagle and tv translators in healy, nenana and delta junction. Kuac's radio channel is programmed to meet the needs of alaska communities' diverse interests. Kuac 89.9 fm is a traditional npr news station with volunteer/locally produced music programs in the afternoon and evenings. Kuac tv broadcasts six television channels and one audio-only channel (kuac-fm) on television. Each television channel beyond the traditional pbs channel is focused on an area of interest or demographic - kuac's "world" provides documentaries and science, kuac's create" focuses on handicrafts, travel and cooking, kuac's "fnx" is devoted…
$1,141,099 spentof which $1,141,099 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,141,099.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $157k to $277k (+77%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of KUAC FRIENDS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $11k → $49k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 KUAC FRIENDS GROUP’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
KUAC FRIENDS GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 KUAC FRIENDS GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 50% · 2020 77% · 2021 42% · 2022 54% · 2023 35% — 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
67% of KUAC FRIENDS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 91% 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
56% of KUAC FRIENDS GROUP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $225k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $289k 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
KUAC FRIENDS GROUP has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like KUAC FRIENDS GROUP
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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 KUAC FRIENDS GROUP: 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 KUAC FRIENDS GROUP?
- KUAC FRIENDS GROUP (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $513,977 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($156,689). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does KUAC FRIENDS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $513,977 in grants to KUAC FRIENDS GROUP, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KUAC FRIENDS GROUP?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $156,689 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KUAC FRIENDS GROUP 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 2019–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing