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THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION

THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,630 to it, the largest being JIM AND VICKI JANSEN FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$188k
Net assets
$3.0M
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What The Ted Stevens Foundation Fka North to the Future Foundation does

Mission

To assist in educating and informing the public about the career of senator ted stevens,to make grants to other public charities and to provide programs which educate, encourage communication, relieve poverty and promote community welfare throughout the state of alaska and the united states.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Preserve the records and momentos of senator ted stevens' lifetime of public service and support the causes he championed.

    $403,037 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $403,037.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($675k) Expenses 100 ($908k) Net assets 100 ($2.1M)2018 Revenue 170 ($1.1M) Expenses 94 ($854k) Net assets 114 ($2.4M)2019 Revenue 103 ($697k) Expenses 89 ($809k) Net assets 111 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 101 ($684k) Expenses 84 ($765k) Net assets 107 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 101 ($684k) Expenses 71 ($641k) Net assets 109 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 75 ($505k) Expenses 64 ($577k) Net assets 106 ($2.2M)2023 Revenue 78 ($528k) Expenses 61 ($556k) Net assets 104 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 188 ($1.3M) Expenses 53 ($482k) Net assets 143 ($3.0M)
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Revenue (188)Expenses (53)Net assets (143)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.2M to $3.0M (+38%).

$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.3M
$2.2M
$2.2M
$3.0M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 36% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

84% of THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$232k
’17
$292k
’18
−$112k
’19
−$81k
’20
$43k
’21
−$72k
’22
−$28k
’23
$787k
’24
2.7
months of
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.

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Listed1515171717181614
Joined·+0+2+0+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·0000022
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $41k → $20k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION’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 TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

43%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2021 54% · 2022 44% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

89% of THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alaska funders.

AK
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Alaska out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin62% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

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In Alaska

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

14
board members
93%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

91%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION?
THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION (Alaska) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $187,630 to it, the largest being JIM AND VICKI JANSEN FOUNDATION ($80,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $187,630 in grants to THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION?
JIM AND VICKI JANSEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE TED STEVENS FOUNDATION FKA NORTH TO THE FUTURE FOUNDATION 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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