Alaska · Nonprofit
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING (Alaska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,832,672 to it, the largest being JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,121,412). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Southeast Alaska Independent Living does
Mission
Southeast Alaska Independent Living (sail) inc. Is a federal and state recognized independent living and aging and disability resource center whose mission is to "inspire personal independence" by providing and promoting options for southeast alaskans to live as active, productive, and involved citizens in their community of choice
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Southeast Alaska Independent Living (sail)provides consumer directed independent living services to seniors and people with significant disabilities throughout southeast alaska, enabling increased options for active, involved, productive and integrated community living. Sail provides five core services; 1) advocacy, 2) information and referral, 3) peer support, 4) independent living skills training, and 5) transition services. Sail is significantly funded by federal and state of alaska grants to promote independent living. Core independent living services sail's service delivery model is centered on the five core services required of all independent living centers nationwide. While service delivery methods vary by community need, all services are designed to promote independence, inclusion, and self-determination. 1.advocacy sail engages in individual and systems-level advocacy to promote access, inclusion, and equal opportunity. Staff maintain current knowledge of local, state, and federal legislation impacting people with disabilities. Sail staff and consumers participate in committees,coalitions, and community initiatives addressing disability-related issues. Individual…
$3,713,198 spentof which $175,416 as grants$2,234,684 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,713,198.
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 $2.4M to $3.4M (+39%).
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 67% · 2018 70% · 2019 69% · 2020 72% · 2021 57% · 2022 49% · 2023 52% · 2024 42% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
51% of SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Mary Gregg
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $133k → $959k.
7 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING’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
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 63% · 2019 88% · 2020 50% · 2021 55% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% — 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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
65% of SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING'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 $988k that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,196 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.5M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$4.4M
- Denali Commission$53k
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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING: 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 SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING (Alaska) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,832,672 to it, the largest being JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,121,412). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,832,672 in grants to SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING?
- JUNEAU COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,121,412 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHEAST ALASKA INDEPENDENT LIVING 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 25 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