Alaska · Nonprofit
Launch Alaska
Launch Alaska (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,500 to it, the largest being Cook Inlet Tribal Council ($74,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $539k
What Launch Alaska does
Mission
We're on a mission to catalyze rapid innovation that strengthens energy, transportation, and industrial systems. We accomplish this in a few different ways. Our Tech Deployment Track is an eight-month accelerator program designed to help companies forge partnerships and identify projects in Alaska. Successful Tech Deployment Track graduates are invited to join the Launch Alaska Portfolio, where we offer continued support and connections to project opportunities in Alaska. At the same time, our Deployment Team works with Alaska asset and infrastructure owners to facilitate new deployment projects around the state. Our policy and advocacy efforts focus on nonpartisan advocacy, engagement, and action to reach policy solutions that accelerate the energy transition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2024 Launch Alaska supported 11 startups, created 22 new jobs, facilitated 16 tech demonstrations, and unlocked more than $342 million worth of projects in Alaska.
$3,449,853 spentof which $66,571 as grants$841,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,449,853.
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 2023 to 2024, from $210k to $648k (+209%).
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: 2019 74% · 2020 96% · 2021 95% · 2022 88% · 2023 74% · 2024 96% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of Launch Alaska’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Angela Rodell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Launch 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
Launch Alaska leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 Launch Alaska.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of Launch Alaska's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Launch Alaska has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Launch Alaska receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.3M on record.
- Department of Defense$9.7M
- Department of Energy$4.0M
- Department of Commerce$351k
- Denali Commission$143k
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 Launch 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
95% 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
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Launch Alaska Fund LLC · partnership
- Launch Alaska Fund II LLC · partnership
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Launch 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 Launch Alaska?
- Launch Alaska (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,500 to it, the largest being Cook Inlet Tribal Council ($74,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Launch Alaska have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $84,500 in grants to Launch Alaska.
- Who is the largest funder of Launch Alaska?
- Cook Inlet Tribal Council is the largest funder on record, with $74,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Launch 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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