Alaska · Nonprofit
Onward and Upward
Onward and Upward (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,270,143 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,168,522). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $787k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $264k
What Onward and Upward does
Mission
To promote a culture of One Health in Alaska through evidence-based action!
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Onward & upward offers year round opportunities for students to engage and connect with one another, their families, their community, their place and nature through our proprietary evidence based experiential curriculum and our one health curriculum. Examples of experiences for which the curriculum is facilitated include hiking, backpacking, rock climbing, team building activities, sports, yoga, native youth olympics, archery, fishing, nordic skiing, wilderness skills, ice fishing, snowshoeing, farming practices, high and low ropes challenge course activities, and indigenous cultural activities.
$382,820 spent$111,249 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $382,820.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $215k to $516k (+140%).
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 11% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Onward and Upward’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $84k → $24k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 Onward and Upward’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
Onward and Upward leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 Onward and Upward.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 92% · 2021 85% · 2022 100% · 2023 59% — 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
100% of Onward and Upward's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.
Against its field
Onward and Upward is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Onward and Upward
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Onward and Upward: 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 Onward and Upward?
- Onward and Upward (Alaska) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,270,143 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($2,168,522). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Onward and Upward have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,270,143 in grants to Onward and Upward, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Onward and Upward?
- VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,168,522 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Onward and Upward 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 6 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