Alaska · Nonprofit
The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs
The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,450 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($67,590). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $165k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $181k
- Net assets
- $279k
What The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs does
Mission
The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs primary exempt purpose is helping provide veterinary care and located homes for sled dogs when their racing or touring days are over and helping with the overflow of puppies from Alaska Native Villages to become socialized with mushing kennels as fosters to prepare the puppies for adoption.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Helping to Rehome racing touring or recreational mushing sled dog new homes when their formal running days are done. We increase the number of dogs we help each year. We also facilitate transportation for mushers who send their dogs outside of Alaska and also advertise for mushers who choose to adopt direct from their kennels rather than have us place in foster homes. Each dog we place through our fostering receives a basic health exam spay or neutering and applicable vaccinations.
$40,000 spentof which $50,000 as grants41% of program spendingOnsite Vet Clinic: We purchased a small building and had a donor pay to finish the interior plus other grants for equipment to host a visiting veterinarian to perform spay and neuter procedures for the previous years pups that were adopted and for incoming retiring sled dogs that were not already altered.
$37,000 spentof which $37,000 as grants38% of program spendingThis past year we took in 14 litters of puppies from Alaska Native Villages that were flown in to Anchorage. This amounted to more than 100 puppies and some with moms still nursing to be spayed and rehomed or returned back to their owners in the villages. Each litter of puppies was fostered here on site or at mushing tour kennels where the puppies would be handled by tourists and be cared for daily until old enough to be adopted. This provides wonderful socialization and growth opportunities for the puppies who end up being confident happy and more easy to adapt to their new adoptive families meaning we have less returns after adoption.
$20,000 spentof which $30,000 as grants21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $97,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $58k to $58k (−1%).
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.
96% of The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $23k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% 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 The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs’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 August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 56% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 43% — 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 The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 40% 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 The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside Alaska, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $137k 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
The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs
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.
Public support
53%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs: 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 The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs?
- The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs (Alaska) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $181,450 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($67,590). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 75% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $181,450 in grants to The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $67,590 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 10 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