Alaska · Nonprofit
NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC
NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $933,762 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($347,835). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $934k
- Net assets
- $4.7M
What Nine Star Enterprises Inc does
Mission
Our mission, through education and employment services, is to help alaskans get a job, keep a job, and advance on the job.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Work services assists families on public assistance in overcoming barriers to economic success & moves them toward financial self-sufficiency. This includes supportive services provided to clients in the form of partner referrals or financial assistance from the state. Nine star work services specialists, career coaches, & job developers work through community referrals to help families remove barriers to success. A total of 782 families served and 265 families moving off of public assistance altogether.
$2,891,637 spent49% of program spendingNine star's dhhs grant was instrumental in developing the infrastructure for our center for workforce excellence, which provided education and employment services to 1,587 alaskans, 550 who were youth. Nine star provided a wide array of services, including academic skills, digital literacy, financial literacy, career exploration, employability skills training. The cfwe pilot resulted in 160 unsubsidized jobs, 88 enrolled in industry specific training. This service is still growing in anchorage and wasilla, and is reaching into rural alaska.
$1,351,637 spent23% of program spendingNine star provides services thru a small contract from the alaska housing finance corporation to help their housing participants get jobs. We also received support from various foundations to fund our cfwe program that helps job seekers who "walk in" to receive services that help them remove barriers & secure training/employment that leads to financial self- sufficiency. We also managed a grant with the state of alaska for adult basic education that provided education and career services leading to ged, jobs, or preapprenticeship.
$1,218,817 spent21% of program spendingNine star's youth workforce innovation opportunity act (wioa) youth program assists at-risk youth ages 14-24 with education and employment services. The goal is to help them remove work and life barriers so they can get a job, keep a job, and advance on the job. 184 at-risk youth were enrolled in education and employment activities; 114 unsubsidized jobs were obtained; 45 began their work experience with subsidized workplace internships.
$470,834 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,932,925.
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. 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 $3.2M to $4.0M (+28%).
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 90% · 2018 91% · 2019 90% · 2020 95% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 91% · 2024 92% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Amy Young
Interim CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $64k → $139k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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
NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 54% · 2019 43% · 2020 77% · 2021 48% · 2022 51% · 2023 47% — 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
60% of NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $415k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.6M
- Denali Commission$200k
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 NINE STAR ENTERPRISES 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC?
- NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC (Alaska) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $933,762 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE ($347,835). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $933,762 in grants to NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NINE STAR ENTERPRISES INC?
- UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE is the largest funder on record, with $347,835 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NINE STAR ENTERPRISES 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.
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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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing