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Southcentral Foundation

Anchorage, AK · EIN 92-0086076. Reported 50 grants totalling $5,332,228 to 23 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

23organizations funded
$75,779median reported grant
$5,332,228granted, 2020-2023
75%of grantees funded again the next year
19%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 Southcentral Foundation, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E31) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 19% 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. 75% 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 $75,779. Half of what it reported fell between $26,449 and $137,757; the smallest was $6,413 and the largest $602,758. 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
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
9 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
15 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 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
F5 ProjectFargo, ND$1,008,139222023
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$981,513442023
Cook Inlet Tribal Council IncAnchorage, AK$489,806222023
University of AlaskaFairbanks, AK$430,540422023
Cook Inlet Tribal Council inAnchorage, AK$312,537222021
Oregon Health & Science UnivPortland, OR$292,609332022
Northern Arizona UniversityFlagstaff, AZ$277,048222023
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$232,492332023
Stone Soup GroupAnchorage, AK$188,030332023
James River Correctional CentJames Town, ND$160,715112023
Alaska Pacific UniversityAnchorage, AK$135,814442023
University of ArkansasLittle Rock, AR$121,269222023
The Superior Group IncAnchorage, AK$112,660112022
University of MontanaMissoula, MT$110,437332023
Abused Womens Aid in Crisis IncorporatedAnchorage, AK$106,250222022
Regents of the University of ColoradoDenver, CO$85,780112023
University of New MexicoAlbuquerque, NM$75,868222023
Washington State UniversityRenton, WA$75,594332023
Tyonek Contractor Service LLCAnchorage, AK$41,994112022
Seattle Childrens HospitalSeattle, WA$32,995222023
Anchorage Tank II IncAnchorage, AK$29,912112021
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$16,754112021
Need Electrical ContractorsAnchorage, AK$13,472112021

16 of 23 (70%) 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 82 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 10 of 23 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.

Health Care
3 orgs
Education
3 orgs
Human Services
2 orgs
Crime & Legal
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20206$564,044$98,810
202111$772,116$34,713
202217$2,003,554$63,412
202316$1,992,514$91,925

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

35% 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
$1.9M
North Dakota
$1.2M
Washington
$1.1M
Oregon
$293K
Arizona
$277K
Minnesota
$249K
Arkansas
$121K
Montana
$110K

Down to the city

Anchorage, AK
$1.4M
Seattle, WA
$1.0M
Fargo, ND
$1.0M
Fairbanks, AK
$431K
Portland, OR
$293K
Flagstaff, AZ
$277K

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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 Trustees of Columbia University7 shared recipientsMayo Clinic7 shared recipientsThe Alaska Community Foundation6 shared recipientsAmerican Heart Association Inc6 shared recipientsAlaska Native Tribal Health Consortium5 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 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 $75,779 -- 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 Southcentral Foundation'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 15 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: 4501 Diplomacy Drive, Anchorage, AK, 99508.

EIN 92-0086076 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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