Alaska Policy Forum

Analysis

Alaska Policy Forum is a registered charity in United States, based in Anchorage, AK. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 2009, 17 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Alaska Policy Forum reported income of $355k and spending of $572k, spending 161% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $306k to $355k (+16%), an average of +3.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 53%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Alaska Policy Forum sits at the 63rd percentile: it is larger than about 63% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 65th percentile, and in the 60th percentile within AK. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Kinetic Bridges ($355k), First Chance Foundation ($355k) and Union Center Christian School Inc ($355k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 91% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $153k. At year end it held assets of $177k against liabilities of $46k, net assets of $130k. It reported 7 employees.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.