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Bristol Bay Regional Seafood

Anchorage, AK · EIN 20-2660011. Reported 73 grants totalling $5,103,978 to 39 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

39organizations funded
$20,000median reported grant
$5,103,978granted, 2021-2024
55%of grantees funded again the next year
27%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 Bristol Bay Regional Seafood, by its IRS classification it is an alliance or advocacy organization in animal welfare (NTEE D013).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 27% 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. 55% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $6,028 and the largest $1,000,000. 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
4 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
35 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
19 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
2 grants
$250,000 Or More
4 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
Rising Tide CommunicationsAnchorage, AK$1,393,492332023
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit CorporationArlington, VA$1,000,000112022
Daniel Edelman IncChicago, IL$617,107222023
Bristol Bay Science & Research InstituteDillingham, AK$402,602442024
Mrj and AssociatesTallahassee, FL$258,000442024
Bristol Bay FoundationAnchorage, AK$200,000442024
KdlgDillingham, AK$180,000442024
New Venture FundWashington, DC$131,000332023
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$121,640222023
Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation IncJuneau, AK$90,000332024
United Tribes of Bristol BayDillingham, AK$63,000222024
Ocean StrategiesSeattle, WA$62,561332023
Seafood Analytics Dba Cq Foods IncCorpus Christi, TX$62,180332023
Coastwise Press LLCOlympia, WA$53,500332023
Trident SeafoodsSeattle, WA$53,160332023
Central Peninsula RefrigerationSoldotna, AK$41,000332023
Ocean Beauty SeafoodsSeattle, WA$35,000222022
University of AlaskaFairbanks, AK$32,450222023
Modern Career WomanDenver, CO$31,500222024
Lrg ManagementPalm Beach Gardens, FL$25,096112024
Northern EconomicsAnchorage, AK$25,000112021
One Small Step Writing ServicesCrescent City, CA$25,000112024
Northline SeafoodsSitka, AK$20,000112023
Alaska Marine Conservation CouncilAnchorage, AK$15,500112021
Action MarySeattle, WA$15,450112022
LynkerLeesburg, VA$15,000112021
Marine Refigeration SolutionsPort Ludlow, WA$15,000112022
Seattle Fish CompanyDenver, CO$15,000112021
CostcoSeattle, WA$12,500112021
Alaska Leader SeafoodsEdmonds, WA$10,000112024
Alaska Longline Fishermens AssociationSitka, AK$10,000112022
Harris TeeterMatthews, NC$10,000112024
Leadingdc LLCWashington, DC$10,000112024
Mckinley Reseach GroupAnchorage, AK$10,000112024
Santa Monica SeafoodsRacho Dominquez, CA$10,000112021
Well PlatedRobbinsdale, MN$10,000112024
Seattle Fishermen S MemorialSeattle, WA$7,500112023
Thunder's CatchSandpoint, ID$7,476112024
Leader Creek FisheriesSeattle, WA$7,264112021

18 of 39 (46%) 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 7 of 39 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.

Environment
3 orgs
Science & Technology
1 org
Youth Development
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202122$1,311,929$21,420
202218$2,118,277$23,904
202318$1,296,662$26,628
202415$377,110$17,000

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

49% 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
$2.5M
Virginia
$1.0M
Illinois
$617K
Washington
$394K
Florida
$283K
District of Columbia
$141K
Texas
$62K
Colorado
$46K

Down to the city

Anchorage, AK
$1.6M
Arlington, VA
$1.0M
Dillingham, AK
$646K
Chicago, IL
$617K
Seattle, WA
$315K
Tallahassee, FL
$258K

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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.

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation4 shared recipientsBristol Bay Economic Development Corp4 shared recipientsRasmuson Foundation4 shared recipientsAlaska Conservation Foundation4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 shared recipientsNew Venture Fund3 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 $20,000 -- 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 Bristol Bay Regional Seafood'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 2 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 4 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: 3705 Arctic Blvd 1188, Anchorage, AK, 99503.

EIN 20-2660011 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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