Alaska · Nonprofit
Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture
Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,621,635 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS ISLAND PINK & CHUM INC ($4,100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture does
Mission
Enhance and rehabilitate the salmon resources in Southern Southeast Alaska to the optimum possible economic and social benefit of all resource users.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Chum - SSRAA programs are established to enhance and rehabilitate salmon production in southern Southeast Alaska to the optimum social and economic benefit of salmon users. The expenditures related to producing returning adult salmon is accomplished through operation of seven hatcheries and six remote release sites. The Southeast Alaska commercial salmon fleets are the largest benefactors catching SSRAA salmon. In 2025 there were 278 SE seine permit holders, 475 SE drift gillnet permit holders, 866 State hand troll permit holders, and 953 State power troll permit holders. Each of these fishermen is an independent small business. In addition to the commercial fleets there are several hundred commercial sport charter businesses, non-guided resident sport fishermen, personal use fisherman, and subsistence fisherman benefiting from SSRAA salmon returns. The 2025 SSRAA chum fry release was 192,100,000 million.From the releases of SSRAA chum fry returning as adults the chum salmon program generated $9,686,487 in exvessel value to the commercial fleet in 2024. The wholesale value to regional communities is approximately twice that amount.
$7,409,599 spent$3,165,910 earned by the program64% of program spendingChinook - SSRAA programs are established to enhance and rehabilitate salmon production in southern Southeast Alaska to the optimum social and economic benefit of salmon users. The expenditures related to producing returning adult salmon is accomplished through operation of seven hatcheries and six remote release sites. The Southeast Alaska commercial salmon fleets are the largest benefactors catching SSRAA salmon. In 2025 there were 278 SE seine permit holders, 475 SE drift gillnet permit holders, 866 State hand troll permit holders, and 953 State power troll permit holders. Each of these fishermen is an independent small business. In addition to the commercial fleets there are several hundred commercial sport charter businesses, non-guided resident sport fishermen, personal use fisherman, and subsistence fisherman benefiting from SSRAA salmon returns. The 2025 SSRAA chinook smolt release was 2,438,600 million.From the releases of SSRAA chinook smolts returning as adults the chinook salmon program generated $1,871,695 in exvessel value to the commercial fleet in 2024. The wholesale value to regional communities is approximately twice that amount. SSRAA chinook returns also have a…
$902,758 spent$385,723 earned by the program8% of program spendingCoho - SSRAA programs are established to enhance and rehabilitate salmon production in southern Southeast Alaska to the optimum social and economic benefit of salmon users. The expenditures related to producing returning adult salmon is accomplished through operation of seven hatcheries and six remote release sites. The Southeast Alaska commercial salmon fleets are the largest benefactors catching SSRAA salmon. In 2025 there were 278 SE seine permit holders, 475 SE drift gillnet permit holders, 866 State hand troll permit holders, and 953 State power troll permit holders. Each of these fishermen is an independent small business. In addition to the commercial fleets there are several hundred commercial sport charter businesses, non-guided resident sport fishermen, personal use fisherman, and subsistence fisherman benefiting from SSRAA salmon returns. The 2025 SSRAA coho smolt release was 8,988,600 million.From the releases of SSRAA coho smolts returning as adults the coho salmon program generated $1,971,416 in exvessel value to the commercial fleet in 2024. The wholesale value to regional communities is approximately twice that amount. SSRAA coho returns also have a strong positive…
$3,322,915 spent$1,419,787 earned by the program29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,635,272.
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 $28M to $39M (+42%).
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 17% · 2018 15% · 2019 11% · 2020 20% · 2021 17% · 2022 6% · 2023 9% · 2024 15% · 2025 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (67% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Chris Guggenbickler
Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2.0M → $512k.
From the IRS filings of Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture’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
Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 119 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 animals nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$2k
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 Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
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 Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture: 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 Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture?
- Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,621,635 to it, the largest being DOUGLAS ISLAND PINK & CHUM INC ($4,100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $4,621,635 in grants to Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture?
- DOUGLAS ISLAND PINK & CHUM INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture 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 3 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