Alaska · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE
UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE (Alaska) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,669,020 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($2,429,272). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $6.9M
Hosts funds for others
UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$12M
Recipients
55
Contributions on record
$8.4M
Donors on record
40
Payments out are 1.38x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.
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 2020 to 2021, from $12M to $17M (+42%).
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 7% · 2019 6% · 2020 15% · 2021 81% · 2022 78% · 2023 53% · 2024 58% · 2025 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Eric Billingsley
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Natasha Pope
Board Chair - Full Year
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $446k → $388k.
14 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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: $2.8M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Rasmuson Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE raised.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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.
Where its funders are
70% of UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE'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 $1.7M that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Government funding UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.1M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$229k
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE: 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. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE?
- UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE (Alaska) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,669,020 to it, the largest being The Alaska Community Foundation ($2,429,272). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $5,669,020 in grants to UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE?
- The Alaska Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,429,272 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF ANCHORAGE 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 37 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