Alaska · Nonprofit
NAMI Alaska
NAMI Alaska (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,059 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($290,251). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $556k
- Net assets
- $416k
What NAMI Alaska does
Mission
To provide education, support, advocacy and public awareness for Alaska NAMI affiliates and those whose lives are affected by a mental health condition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The mission of NAMI Alaska is to help individuals challenged by mental health illness build better lives through education, advocacy, support, and public awareness to end the stigma of mental illness. We offer help and hope to those seeking solutions. We are working towards a time where all people affected by a mental health condition live healthy fulfilling lives supported by their families, their cultures and a caring community. As the statewide umbrella organization, we work with our local affiliates to enhance their outreach and support in the communities of Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, and the North Slope. We are expanding the roster of NAMI signature programs throughout the state. We provide training for NAMI Alaska program leaders to become certified to facilitate or teach our support groups and classes. NAMI Alaska is part of a nationwide grassroots advocacy effort to be the voice of mental health, including collaboration with like-minded organizations.
$127,932 spent$225 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $127,932.
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 2019 to 2020, from $230k to $422k (+83%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Ann Ringstad
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $23k → $42k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 NAMI 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
NAMI Alaska leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 NAMI Alaska.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 68% · 2022 74% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of NAMI Alaska'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 $266k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $291k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Organizations like NAMI 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
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NAMI 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 NAMI Alaska?
- NAMI Alaska (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $556,059 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($290,251). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NAMI Alaska have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $556,059 in grants to NAMI Alaska, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NAMI Alaska?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $290,251 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NAMI 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.
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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 7 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