Alaska News Coalition
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 365109356
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 9073518276
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $97,866
- Expenses
- $44,450
- Assets
- $76,736
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Larry Persily (Board president)
- Rashah McChesney (Board vice president)
People named in this filing
- Larry Persily (Board president)
- Rashah McChesney (Board vice president)
- Lisa Busch (Board treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To work with Alaska newspapers to find collaborative paths toward financial viability, in order to preserve community journalism in a geographically diverse state. And to assist in the transition to a stronger online presence in the communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
The Alaska News Coalition was created in 2024; our initial year was 2025, which included: An initiative to create a publicly available (free) searchable database of public notices published by newspapers statewide, to aid the public and improve services for municipal, state and other agencies; a program of small grants to newspapers to improve their online presence; and an initiative to set up a story-share structure so that newspapers could share their stories with other newspapers in the state.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 64% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 75
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.6%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 60.9%; rating input score 61
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 54.6%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.6% of revenue deployed · 60.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 28/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.