Alaska · Nonprofit
MAT-SU SENTINEL
MAT-SU SENTINEL (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,474 to it, the largest being The Tiny News Collective Inc ($107,174). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $215k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $108k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Mat-Su Sentinel does
Mission
The purpose of mss is to provide objective, non-partisan information to the general public that affects the understanding and engagement of matanuska-susitna borough residents and other interested in local democracy, civic engagement and healthy communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
News reporting & civic events to serve the public interest through education of the general public by inquiring into critical problems and opportunities within the mat-su relating to governmental, social, cultural and environmental matters. To focus particular attention on research and reporting about government, education, and economic development and opportunity. To further such research, study and analysis by funding recruitment and training of experienced and developing journalist and others with experience or promise in investigating and reporting on such matters. To publish the results of non-partisan inquiry, study, analysis and research for the benefit of the general public, including findings about solutions to problems and potential opportunities. To maintain a website to publish and disseminate such research and information.
$6,394 spent$215,185 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $6,394.
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 MAT-SU SENTINEL’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
MAT-SU SENTINEL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
99% 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 MAT-SU SENTINEL.
“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
MAT-SU SENTINEL draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 2 states in all.
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
MAT-SU SENTINEL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MAT-SU SENTINEL
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
9% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAT-SU SENTINEL: 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 MAT-SU SENTINEL?
- MAT-SU SENTINEL (Alaska) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,474 to it, the largest being The Tiny News Collective Inc ($107,174). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAT-SU SENTINEL have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $108,474 in grants to MAT-SU SENTINEL, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAT-SU SENTINEL?
- The Tiny News Collective Inc is the largest funder on record, with $107,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAT-SU SENTINEL 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 2025–2025), 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