Alaska · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Education in Alaska

Imperigo has identified 141 funders that made 696 grants totaling $59.5M to 118 education organizations in Alaska, with a median grant of $21K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Education Funding in Alaska

Total granted $59.5M
Funders 141
Grants 696
Organizations funded 118

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Sealaska Heritage Institute
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $638K · through 2024 · 17.5% of their giving
$2.3M
2. Physician Assistants in Orthopaedic Surgery Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.0M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$1.1M
3. The Alaska Community Foundation
88 grants to 42 organizations · largest $875K · through 2024 · 3.6% of their giving
$4.5M
4. Cardinal Newman Professorship Foundation Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $110K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$516K
5. Child Care Connection Inc DBA Thread
47 grants to 14 organizations · largest $389K · through 2023 · 3.2% of their giving
$3.1M
6. Arctic Slope Community Foundation Inc
8 grants to 3 organizations · largest $239K · through 2024 · 8.7% of their giving
$595K
7. United Way of Anchorage
16 grants to 3 organizations · largest $42K · through 2023 · 6.3% of their giving
$355K
8. Best Beginnings
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $25K · through 2023 · 28.4% of their giving
$98K
9. Territorial Sportsmen Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $32K · through 2024 · 66.5% of their giving
$95K
10. Bristol Bay Economic Development Corp
9 grants to 2 organizations · largest $251K · through 2023 · 1.7% of their giving
$918K
11. University of Alaska Fairbanks Alumni Association
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $27K · through 2024 · 70.0% of their giving
$63K
12. World Brain Forum Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $150K · through 2025 · 7.1% of their giving
$150K
13. Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $297K · through 2023
$1.4M
14. Juneau Community Foundation
7 grants to 3 organizations · largest $79K · through 2024 · 2.2% of their giving
$425K
15. Chugach Tribal Services
3 grants to 3 organizations · largest $25K · through 2024 · 42.5% of their giving
$42K
16. Kodiak Electric Association Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$40K
17. Refocus Counseling Ministry Inc
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $16K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$31K
18. Cook Inlet Tribal Council
3 grants to 2 organizations · largest $308K · through 2023 · 1.4% of their giving
$406K
19. Anchor Town Sports Association
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $25K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$25K
20. Mat-Su Cabaret Hotel Restaurant and Retailers Association
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $12K · through 2023 · 18.1% of their giving
$25K
21. Anchorage Mayors Charity Ball
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $48K · through 2019 · 5.0% of their giving
$48K
22. Don Young Institute for Alaska Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $10K · through 2022 · 100.0% of their giving
$10K
23. Valdez United Way
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $15K · through 2023 · 7.5% of their giving
$25K
24. International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics
2 grants to 1 organization · largest $27K · through 2020 · 4.7% of their giving
$38K
25. Ketchikan CHARR Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $9K · through 2019 · 17.8% of their giving
$9K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education work in Alaska, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 9 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering education work, with an address in Alaska. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable education funding in Alaska, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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