GrantmakersAlaska

Association of Alaska School Boards

Juneau, AK · EIN 92-0098760. Reported 68 grants totalling $14.6M to 24 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

24organizations funded
$145,602median reported grant
$14.6Mgranted, 2021-2024
84%of grantees funded again the next year
24%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Association of Alaska School Boards, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B20C) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 24 distinct organizations, with 24% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 84% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $145,602. Half of what it reported fell between $75,243 and $311,530; the smallest was $7,582 and the largest $990,114. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
2 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
12 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
22 grants
$250,000 Or More
20 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
CcthitaJuneau, AK$3,435,329442024
Juneau School DistrictJuneau, AK$1,883,148442024
Sitka School DistrictSitka, AK$1,463,646442024
Chatham School DistrictAngoon, AK$1,268,799442024
Hydaburg School DistrictHydaburg, AK$1,268,633442024
Yakutat School DistrictYakutat, AK$799,615442024
Anchorage School DistrictAnchorage, AK$680,734332024
Hoonah City School DistrictHoonah, AK$602,931442024
Sealaska Heritage InstituteJuneau, AK$558,365442024
Aiding Women From Abuse and Rape Emergencies IncJuneau, AK$541,702442024
Lower Yukon School DistrictMt Village, AK$427,413442024
University of AlaskaFairbanks, AK$351,053222022
Southeast Childhood CollectiveJuneau, AK$349,272222022
Sitkans Against Family ViolenceSitka, AK$266,496442024
Annette Island School DistrictMetlakatla, AK$247,313322022
United Way of Southeast AlaskaJuneau, AK$119,764222022
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral SciencesArlington, VA$78,441112021
NAMI JuneauJuneau, AK$68,500442024
Kodiak Island School DistrictKodiak, AK$46,348112021
Outer CoastSitka, AK$36,000222024
Ketchikan Gateway Borough SchoolKetchikan, AK$35,697112024
Bering Strait School DistrictUalakleet, AK$14,733112021
Lower Kuskokwim School DistrictBethel, AK$8,266112024
Cooper River School DistrictGlennallen, AK$7,582112024

18 of 24 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 7 of 24 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Arts & Culture
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Social Science
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202120$3,997,601$130,698
202217$2,967,251$136,440
202314$3,413,670$167,951
202417$4,181,258$204,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Alaska. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Alaska
$14.5M
Virginia
$78K

Down to the city

Juneau, AK
$7.0M
Sitka, AK
$1.8M
Angoon, AK
$1.3M
Hydaburg, AK
$1.3M
Yakutat, AK
$800K
Anchorage, AK
$681K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Alaska Community Foundation11 shared recipientsSealaska Heritage Institute9 shared recipientsRasmuson Foundation8 shared recipientsChild Care Connection Inc5 shared recipientsJuneau Community Foundation4 shared recipientsAlaska Children's Trust3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $145,602 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alaska.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Association of Alaska School Boards's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1111 West 9TH Street, Juneau, AK, 99801.

EIN 92-0098760 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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