Alaska · Nonprofit
RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,173 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,409,016). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $37M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Rural Alaska Community Action Program does
Mission
To empower low-income alaskans through advocacy, education, affordable housing and direct services that respect our unique values and cultures.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The child development division provides early childhood and family support services to prenatal women, children and families in communities across alaska, serving 661 children and their families. The programs offered include head start, early head start, parents as teachers, and the child development center in anchorage. Child development programs operate under strict federal and state regulations, which require a well-trained staff and continuous monitoring and program improvement. Programs are designed to facilitate parent involvement and community collaboration surrounding the basic belief that parents are the child's first and best teacher. Children receive services that promote positive socio-emotional development, healthy practices, cultural richness and school readiness.
$12,682,210 spent$326,147 earned by the program41% of program spendingRural cap is a supportive housing division operating affordable housing units for low-income individuals in anchorage and provides one clinical programs across four locations, offering behavioral health services, following the intensive case management model, to individuals in housing who have sudbstance use or co-occurring disorders and who have experienced chronic homelessness. These behavioral health services are voluntary, but rural cap maintains a high enrollment rate. Rural cap takes a holistic approach to the individual, recognizing the overall spectrum of needs and treating them concurrently. All programs provide an integrated, comprehensive approach to treatment, recovery support services, and permanent housing placement.
$6,871,259 spentof which $1,339,423 as grants$1,726,243 earned by the program22% of program spendingCommunity development team programs served individuals from more than 98 communities in fy25 through a variety of capacity building and wellness activities. These include americorps, vista and elder mentor programs, in addition to several training and technical assistance initiatives. Topic areas include substance use prevention, tobacco prevention, youth engagement, leadership and best practices for working with tribal youth, nutrition education and hydroponic gardening, tribal justice and tribal court development, and state and federal grant management. In partnership with the native village of hooper bay, community development also supports a domestic violence shelter in hooper bay.
$6,266,138 spent$24,899 earned by the program20% of program spendingNine self-help homebuyers completed the construction of their homes in soldotna in september 2025. 10 self-help homebuyers in seward started construction on their homes in september 2025. The homes in seward are expected to be completed in spring 2027 or before. Rural cap assisted 31 very-low and low income families in obtaining certificates of eligibility to purchase a home through usda rural development's 502 packaged loan program. 25 very-low and low income families have successfully closed on their loans and moved into their homes 10/01/2024-09/30/2025. Rural cap's planning and construction team provided weatherization services to include energy efficiency upgrades, indoor air quality upgrades and health of the 117 homes to receive weatherization services, 79 homes were occupied by seniors and additional 14 homes received accessibility improvement for clients with disabilities and additional 20 homes received mobile home repair. And safety measures for 117 homes in the northwest arctic, bering straits, calista, kusilvak, anchorage and southeast alaska regions.
$5,416,890 spent$441,519 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $31,236,497.
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 2022 to 2023, from $44M to $52M (+20%).
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 86% · 2018 82% · 2019 84% · 2020 82% · 2021 89% · 2022 88% · 2023 87% · 2024 87% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
L Tiel Smith
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $514k.
2 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $984k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Alaska Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM raised.
From the IRS filings of RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM’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
RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 59% · 2019 54% · 2020 45% · 2021 41% · 2022 25% · 2023 40% — 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
64% of RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
75% of RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $298k 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
RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM's revenue grew 22% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 328 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $143.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$90.9M
- Denali Commission$14.6M
- Department of Justice$13.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$9.3M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$7.8M
- Department of Agriculture$3.6M
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 RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Rc 325 Third LLC · disregarded
- Rc Muldoon Road LLC · disregarded
- 325 E 3rd Limited Partnership · partnership
- Muldoon Garden Limited Partnership · partnership
- Rural Energy Enterprises · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM (Alaska) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,173 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($1,409,016). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $4,938,173 in grants to RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,409,016 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RURAL ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 15 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