Alaska · Nonprofit
THE AFN EDUCATION FUND
THE AFN EDUCATION FUND (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,471 to it, the largest being UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ($659,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE AFN EDUCATION FUND holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Wallace H Coulter Trustshared funders
- First Alaskans Instituteportfolio match
- The CIRI Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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.
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.
99% of THE AFN EDUCATION FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $231k → $150k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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: $84k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Alaska Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE AFN EDUCATION FUND raised.
From the IRS filings of THE AFN EDUCATION FUND’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
THE AFN EDUCATION FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 THE AFN EDUCATION FUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 61% · 2021 99% · 2022 83% · 2023 73% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of THE AFN EDUCATION FUND's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 22% 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
THE AFN EDUCATION FUND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Alaska, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Wallace H Coulter Trustshared fundersFL · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- First Alaskans Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The CIRI Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native Movementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Humanities Forumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atwood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cook Inlet Tribal Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortiumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arctic Slope Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rasmuson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Frances & David Rose Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Alaska Community Action Program Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE AFN EDUCATION FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alaska Federation of Natives · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE AFN EDUCATION FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE AFN EDUCATION FUND?
- THE AFN EDUCATION FUND (Alaska) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,676,471 to it, the largest being UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ($659,121). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE AFN EDUCATION FUND have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,676,471 in grants to THE AFN EDUCATION FUND, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE AFN EDUCATION FUND?
- UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC is the largest funder on record, with $659,121 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE AFN EDUCATION FUND 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing