Alaska · Nonprofit
WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC
WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,979 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($31,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $620k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $59k
- Net assets
- $104k
What World Ice Association Inc does
Mission
To promote artistic and educational endeavors using ice, to enhance and promote international friendships through cultural and artistic exchange, to preserve and display all cultures in elegant ice exhibitions, to promote alaska and to encourage winter tourism and other economic opportunities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
World Ice Association Inc was founded in april 1990 to continue the tradition of ice sculpting in interior alaska. The tradition began with the early celebrations of spring involving winter carnivals of the 1930s. The organization is mostly volunteer driven, and is run by an 11 member board, and over 300 volunteers. Our annual event has hosted over 100 ice artists from the united states and including international artists. In past years, artists from 45 countries have competed in the world ice art championships, with over 100 competition sculptures and exhibition pieces, and the ever-expanding ice attractions in the kids park.
$578,983 spentof which $75,852 as grants$505,279 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $578,983.
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 2023 to 2024, from $207k to $105k (−49%).
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: 2021 19% · 2022 1% · 2023 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $4k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC’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
WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — 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 WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from Alaska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $104 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.
Against its field
WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,453 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC: 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 WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC?
- WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC (Alaska) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $58,979 to it, the largest being RASMUSON FOUNDATION ($31,750). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $58,979 in grants to WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC?
- RASMUSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WORLD ICE ASSOCIATION INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3 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