Alaska · Nonprofit
The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center
The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,007 to it, the largest being BRISTOL BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($1,082,347). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,072 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Alaska Children's Trustshared fundersportfolio match
- Providence Alaska Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
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.
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 52% · 2018 47% · 2019 52% · 2020 60% · 2021 54% · 2022 73% · 2023 58% · 2024 61% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $215k → $140k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center’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 Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% 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
99% 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 Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 81% · 2020 70% · 2021 55% · 2022 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 The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alaska Children's Trustshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 51 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Providence Alaska Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Valley Hospital Association Inc Dba Mat-Su Health Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Juneau Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Richard L and Diane M Block Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDE · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bethel Community Services Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Carr Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchAK · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bristol Bay Native Association InclocalAK · funds 6 organizations near you
- Arctic Slope Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Alaska Community Action Programportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortiumportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Valdez United Wayportfolio 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.
Government funding The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $130k on record.
- Department of Commerce$72k
- Denali Commission$58k
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 Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
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
- Bristol Bay Housing Authority · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center: 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 Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center?
- The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center (Alaska) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,193,007 to it, the largest being BRISTOL BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ($1,082,347). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,193,007 in grants to The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center?
- BRISTOL BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,082,347 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Southwest Alaska Vocational and Educational Center 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 4funders 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