Alaska · Nonprofit
THE FORAKER GROUP
THE FORAKER GROUP (Alaska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,470,239 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,178,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What The Foraker Group does
Mission
The Foraker Group is a 501(c)(3) organization. Our core purpose is to strengthen nonprofits. We are a capacity building organization focusing on the needs of alaskan nonprofits, tribal entities, and rural and non-rural communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Foraker provides fiscal sponsorship to new programs that are in the prelimary stages of their development. The services are intended to provide an opportunity to incubate programs that are short-term and/or will eventually become their own 501(c) organization.
$951,441 spent$938,001 earned by the program25% of program spendingThe foraker shared financial services serves over 120 nonprofits ranging between 50,000 - 9,000,000 with accounting and bookkeeping services. The services provided include payroll processing, cash disbursements, grant reporting, financial statement preparation, and audit preparation.
$1,853,623 spent$1,890,367 earned by the program48% of program spendingA major focus of The Foraker Group is to help organizations prepare for leadership change, conduct executive searches, and support the new hire. Our objective is to assist organizations move through each phase and position them to achieve its goals. The services are designed to help organizations ask critical questions about structure, financial stability, mission results, and commitment to diversity.
$592,281 spentof which $500 as grants$445,955 earned by the program15% of program spendingAll other programs.
$445,027 spentof which $86,265 as grants$117,535 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,842,372.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.8M to $6.1M (+26%).
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 6% · 2018 4% · 2019 15% · 2020 11% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% · 2024 17% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of THE FORAKER GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Laurie Wolf
CEO
Board chair
Pearl Kiyawn Brower
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $141k → $360k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $5.4M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rasmuson Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE FORAKER GROUP raised.
From the IRS filings of THE FORAKER GROUP’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 FORAKER GROUP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 FORAKER GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 50% · 2019 54% · 2020 42% · 2021 53% · 2022 52% · 2023 56% — 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
27% of THE FORAKER GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
57% of THE FORAKER GROUP's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $489k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FORAKER GROUP is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE FORAKER GROUP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $333k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$333k
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 THE FORAKER GROUP
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Sultana New Ventures LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FORAKER GROUP: 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 FORAKER GROUP?
- THE FORAKER GROUP (Alaska) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,470,239 to it, the largest being VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION ($1,178,400). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FORAKER GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $3,470,239 in grants to THE FORAKER GROUP, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FORAKER GROUP?
- VALLEY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION INC DBA MAT-SU HEALTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,178,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FORAKER GROUP 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 14 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