Rural Alaska Community Action Program
Anchorage, AK · EIN 92-0033876. Reported 56 grants totalling $3,454,435 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Rural Alaska Community Action Program, the IRS classifies it under community improvement rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE S200) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 6% 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.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $47,521. Half of what it reported fell between $20,000 and $93,000; the smallest was $5,304 and the largest $203,863. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium | Anchorage, AK | $203,863 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sitka Sound Science Center | Sitka, AK | $159,032 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska Coalition on Housing & Homelessness | Juneau, AK | $158,224 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments | Fort Yukon, AK | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anchorage Community Mental Health Services Inc | Anchorage, AK | $145,455 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Organized Village of Saxman | Saxman, AK | $132,720 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic | Homer, AK | $130,327 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hillcrest Childrens Center | Anchorage, AK | $130,007 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel Winter Shelter Lions Club | Bethel, AK | $127,523 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Annette Island School District | Metlakatla, AK | $125,708 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bethel Community Services Foundation Inc | Bethel, AK | $109,646 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Island Grad Project | Kodiak, AK | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Early Learning Coalition | Healy, AK | $94,761 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Village of Solomon | Nome, AK | $93,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clarks Point Village Council-Village of Clarks Point | Clarks Point, AK | $88,356 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bread Line Inc | Fairbanks, AK | $87,895 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Covenant House Alaska | Anchorage, AK | $86,334 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brother Francis Shelter Kodiak Inc | Kodiak, AK | $85,209 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kodiak Kindness Project | Kodiak, AK | $80,706 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska Literacy Program Inc | Anchorage, AK | $79,510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ccs Early Learning | Wasilla, AK | $72,602 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kokhanok Village Council | Kokhanok, AK | $72,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Identity Inc | Anchorage, AK | $68,387 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native Village of Scammon Bay | Scammon Bay, AK | $65,231 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Maniilaq Association | Kotzebue, AK | $58,496 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kawerak Inc | Nome, AK | $54,538 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Palmer Senior Citizens Center Inc | Palmer, AK | $49,328 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Organized Village of Kwethluk | Kwethluk, AK | $48,140 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kipnuk Traditional Council | Kipnuk, AK | $46,902 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sunshine Community Health Center Inc | Talkeetna, AK | $45,394 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jamhi Health & Wellness Inc | Juneau, AK | $42,925 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mat Su Youth Housing | Wasilla, AK | $36,376 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tyonek Tribal Conservation District | Anchorage, AK | $36,224 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anchorage School District | Anchorage, AK | $35,194 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renewable Energy Alaska Project | Anchorage, AK | $32,957 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pitkas Point Traditional Council | St Marys, AK | $31,779 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Big Lake Neighborhood Closet LLC | Wasilla, AK | $30,468 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| King Island Native Community | Nome, AK | $25,505 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Galena Village-Louden Tribe | Galena, AK | $25,398 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alaska Native Justice Center Inc | Anchorage, AK | $24,295 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska | Unalaska, AK | $24,048 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lime Village Traditional Council | Soldotna, AK | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bunnell Street Arts Center | Homer, AK | $18,397 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Polynesian Association of Alaska Inc | Anchorage, AK | $17,840 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cordova Family Resource Center | Cordova, AK | $17,288 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Native Village of Marys Igloo | Teller, AK | $16,759 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hospice of Homer | Homer, AK | $15,780 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Huslia Tribal Council | Huslia, AK | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sealaska Heritage Institute | Juneau, AK | $10,600 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Native Village of Tetlin | Tetlin, AK | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Opt-in Kiana | Kiana, AK | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Native Village of Unalakleet | Unalakleet, AK | $5,905 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nulato Tribal Council | Nulato, AK | $5,649 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fellowship in Serving Humanity Incorporated | Anchorage, AK | $5,304 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
1 of 54 (2%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
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.
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
AK NAITVE RURAL DIABETES EDUCATION & DATA IMPROVEMENT - Sitka Sound Science Center
AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS, ADDRESSES MATH, LANGUAGE LITERACY - Alaska Coalition on Housing
SHIP - STATEWIDE HEALTHCARD INTEGRATION PLAN - Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments
HEALTH & WELLNESS FAIRS FOR FOUR COMMUNITIES - Alaska Behavioral Health
VOCATIONAL DROP IN HRS - AK SEEDS OF CHANGE - Organized Village of Saxman
ASSURING SAXMAN'S FOOD SECURITY THROUGH TRADITIONAL FOODS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 26 of 54 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $56,154 | $8,000 |
| 2023 | 49 | $3,398,281 | $57,231 |
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
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $47,521 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Alaska.
- 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 Rural Alaska Community Action Program's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 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: 731 E 8TH Avenue, Anchorage, AK, 99501.
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