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OUTER COAST

OUTER COAST (Alaska) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,740,603 to it, the largest being EGG FOUNDATION DBA CAMERON SCHRIER FOUNDATION ($834,934). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
33
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$52k
19/33 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Outer Coast does

Mission

Outer Coast seeks to teach and inspire promising young people to create virtuous change in the world and their own lives. See schedule o for details on how Outer Coast accomplishes this mission.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Outer Coast runs academic programs and summer seminars for high schoolers and high school graduates in sitka, alaska. Outer Coast creates pathways to upward mobility for students historically unable to access the promise of higher education by bridging the gap between high school and four-year institutions that match students' potential, as well as serving as a launchpad for their educational and career aspirations and giving them the tools and purpose to transform their communities and their own lives. Outer Coast invests special effort to recruit alaska natives, rural alaskans, and high-potential students from other underrepresented backgrounds.

    $1,267,183 spentof which $19,400 as grants$240,497 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,267,183.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($533k) Expenses 100 ($359k) Net assets 100 ($155k)2020 Revenue 130 ($696k) Expenses 179 ($643k) Net assets 117 ($181k)2021 Revenue 217 ($1.2M) Expenses 306 ($1.1M) Net assets 154 ($238k)2022 Revenue 240 ($1.3M) Expenses 356 ($1.3M) Net assets 89 ($138k)2023 Revenue 269 ($1.4M) Expenses 404 ($1.5M) Net assets 104 ($161k)2024 Revenue 286 ($1.5M) Expenses 459 ($1.6M) Net assets 28 ($43k)2025 Revenue 326 ($1.7M) Expenses 448 ($1.6M) Net assets 33 ($52k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (326)Expenses (448)Net assets (33)Peer revenue range

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 $229k to $770k (+237%).

$217k
$300k
$371k
$222k
$229k
$770k
$829k
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 3% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

86% of OUTER COAST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$174k
’19
$52k
’20
$57k
’21
$2k
’22
−$17k
’23
−$127k
’24
$128k
’25
6.2
months of
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

Joe Nelson

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed391112111316
Joined·+8+5+2+1+3+7
No longer listed·231214
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 14 funders, grant income rose $1k → $533k.

8 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 OUTER COAST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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

OUTER COAST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

44% 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 OUTER COAST.

30%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 38% · 2020 51% · 2021 44% · 2022 31% · 2023 29% — 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

50% of OUTER COAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

OUTER COAST draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 10 states in all.

AK
WA
IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $897k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OUTER COAST has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve6.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)22% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding OUTER COAST receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $844k on record.

Federal$844k
grants $844kcontracts $0
24
25
Top agencies
  • Department of the Interior$749k
  • National Science Foundation$95k

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 OUTER COAST

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 17%Fundraising 4%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUTER COAST: 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 OUTER COAST?
OUTER COAST (Alaska) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,740,603 to it, the largest being EGG FOUNDATION DBA CAMERON SCHRIER FOUNDATION ($834,934). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OUTER COAST have?
IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $2,740,603 in grants to OUTER COAST, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OUTER COAST?
EGG FOUNDATION DBA CAMERON SCHRIER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $834,934 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OUTER COAST 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 33 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