Alaska · Nonprofit
The Southeast Conference
The Southeast Conference (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,602 to it, the largest being Launch Alaska ($47,417). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $76k
- Net assets
- $7.8M
What The Southeast Conference does
Mission
The mission of Southeast Conference is to undertake and support activities that promote strong economies, healthy communities, and a quality environment in southeast Alaska.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Southeast Conference is a designated economic development district (EDD) through the US Economic Development Administration (EDA) and an Alaska regional development organization (ARDOR) through the state of Alaska. We are a membership organization, our members include municipalities, federally recognized tribes, businesses, native corporations, government agencies, organizations, and individuals located or doing business in southeast Alaska that support the mission of Southeast Conference. We coordinate with our members throughout the region to develop a comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS) for southeast Alaska. A strategic plan was designed to identify regional priorities for economic and community development. The process is strategy-driven and developed by a diverse work group of local representatives from private, public, and nonprofit sectors. By continued involvement with our members through committee and general membership meetings we assist the various groups and communities to use the regional plan as a guidebook and incorporate it into their individual strategic planning process. We also assist in the implementation of the plans by collaborating between…
$10,883,538 spent100% of program spendingSoutheast Conference has spent more than 60 years advocating for the ferry system and is working on a multi-phase approach that will implement structural changes to improve the operability and financial health of the state ferry system in its public service mission. Southeast Conference worked with the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and others to create the first Alaska Marine Highway System long-range plan. Southeast Conference has recently been recognized as the Regional Planning Organization for Southeast Alaska.
Goal: The majority of energy consumption and costs paid by most residents, business and residences goes towards diesel space heat. Provide diesel displacement through improved incremental delivery of energy efficiency measures. Educate people regarding energy use. Progress: Southeast Conference has worked with the USDA rural development to promote and conduct energy audits for businesses in southeast Alaska. Significant technical work continues to progress on a few district heating system concepts that seek place-based solutions to yield non-energy benefits in addition to lower costs and improved efficiencies. Many of the energy-related projects happening in the region rely upon programs and expertise throughout the region and state, with Southeast Conference playing an integral role. Despite depressed oil prices, the region continued strong efforts toward implementation of fuel conservation and efficiency measures. Southeast Conference has received funding to assist homeowners transition from oil and wood-based boilers to heat pumps. This multi-year project aims to support installation of 6,100 heat pumps.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,883,538.
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.
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 $980k to $8.1M (+727%).
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 64% · 2018 53% · 2019 32% · 2020 41% · 2021 75% · 2022 76% · 2023 24% · 2024 92% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Chief executive
Robert Venables
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $8k → $7k.
From the IRS filings of The Southeast Conference’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 Southeast Conference leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 The Southeast Conference.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 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
90% of The Southeast Conference'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.
Government funding The Southeast Conference receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $96.5M on record.
- Department of Commerce$50.6M
- Environmental Protection Agency$38.6M
- Denali Commission$4.0M
- Department of Transportation$2.0M
- Department of Agriculture$1.3M
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 Southeast Conference
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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Southeast Conference: 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 Southeast Conference?
- The Southeast Conference (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $75,602 to it, the largest being Launch Alaska ($47,417). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Southeast Conference have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $75,602 in grants to The Southeast Conference, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Southeast Conference?
- Launch Alaska is the largest funder on record, with $47,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Southeast Conference 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 4 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