The Alaska Community Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 920155067
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Anchorage, AK, USA
- Phone
- 907.334.6700
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $38,911,412
- Expenses
- $24,302,262
- Assets
- $243,886,396
- Liabilities
- $3,512,240
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Alexandra McKay (President/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Alexandra McKay (President/CEO): $252,148 total reported compensation
- KEVIN GRAY (CFO): $239,706 total reported compensation
- Megan Cacciola (VP of Program & Grants): $174,905 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To inspire the spirit of giving and strengthen Alaska's communities.
What it reported doing in 2024
Support camp organizations statewide. The Alaska community foundation has partnered with rasmuson foundation, mat-su health foundation, and the george and stephanie suddock foundation to provide support to summer camps across Alaska. Summer camps are a rite of passage for alaskan youth and essential childcare infrastructure for alaskan families. The camp initiative supports summer enrichment programming for alaskan youth, including both overnight and day camps.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 63% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 74
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 87
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.2%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 89%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $34.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 37.5%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 10.04; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.5%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 63.2% of revenue deployed · 89% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $21.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 21 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $702K reported
- Consistency: 37 of 39 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 349 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 346 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 55/100.