Copper Valley Electric Association Commu
Glennallen, AK · EIN 38-3737079. Reported 94 grants totalling $158,399 to 57 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Copper Valley Electric Association Commu did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,456. Half of everything it gave fell between $763 and $2,300; the smallest was $250 and the largest $7,323. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copper River Watershed Project | Cordova, AK | $11,400 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment - Wise | Copper Center, AK | $8,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Valdez Museum & Historical Archive | Valdez, AK | $8,100 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Terminal Radio Inc Kchu | Valdez, AK | $8,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Youth Rally | Ancourage, AK | $7,947 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Valdez Senior Center | Valdez, AK | $7,850 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Copper River Basin Child Advocacy Center | Glennallen, AK | $7,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Icua Youth Rally | Anchorage, AK | $7,323 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valdez Adventure Alliance | Valdez, AK | $6,950 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Copper River Ems | Glennallen, AK | $5,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Copper River Hockey Club | Glennallen, AK | $5,540 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Hhes 2023 5TH Grade Field Trip | Valdez, AK | $5,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Valdez Youth Wrestling Club | Valdez, AK | $4,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Copper River Native Association | Copper Center, AK | $4,250 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Copper Valley Community Library | Glennallen, AK | $3,728 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Valdez Youth Court | Valdez, AK | $3,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wise | Copper Center, AK | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sound Wellness Alliance Network (swan) | Valdez, AK | $2,825 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Valdez City Schools - 8TH Grade Science | Valdez, AK | $2,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valdez City Schools - 6TH Grade Science | Valdez, AK | $2,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wrangell Institute for Science and Environment | Copper Center, AK | $2,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ghs Geography and Travel Class | Glennallen, AK | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valdez City Schools - Middle School Home Eclife Skills | Valdez, AK | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glennallen Nordic Ski Booster Club | Glennallen, AK | $1,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Valdez Imagination Library | Valdez, AK | $1,800 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Project Santa | Copper Center, AK | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sound Wellness Alliance Network | Valdez, AK | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Upstream Learning | Glennallen, AK | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Valdez Avalanche Center | Valdez, AK | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Valdez Hs National Close-Up | Valdez, AK | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Roar | Glennallen, AK | $1,413 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Copper Valley Historical Society | Glennallen, AK | $1,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Emergency Assistance & Food Bank of Valdez | Valdez, AK | $1,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Glenn-Rich Fire Dept | Glennallen, AK | $1,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vhs National Close-Up | Valdez, AK | $1,300 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Anna Price | Valdez, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Copper River Wrestling Booster Club | Gakona, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crsd - Passports Class Trip | Glennallen, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Glennallen Activities Booster Club | Glennallen, AK | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jessica Hale | Copper Center, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kelsie Friendshuh | Copper Center, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kenny Lake Library | Copper Center, AK | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Kenny Lake Public Library | Copper Center, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reese King | Valdez, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valdez City Schools - National Close Up (high School) | Valdez, AK | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glennallen School | Glennallen, AK | $982 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Glennallen Elementary Library | Glennallen, AK | $855 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crsd - High School Home Ec | Glennallen, AK | $800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Valdez Torpedoes Swim Club | Valdez, AK | $800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valdez City School - 6TH Grade Life Skills | Valdez, AK | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cancer Kindness | Valdez, AK | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cherubim Palomar | Valdez, AK | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hayden Howard | Valdez, AK | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| William Matthews | Glennallen, AK | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valdez Co-Op Preschool | Valdez, AK | $436 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Glennallen Elementary K-3 Grades | Glennallen, AK | $400 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Stepping Stones Learning Center | Valdez, AK | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
20 of 57 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 49%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Icua Youth Rally
YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING (EDUCATION). - Terminal Radio Inc Kchu
VALDEZ TRANSMITTER PROJECT; TRANSMITTER, STUDENT INTERNSHIPS, RADIO CLUB FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. GETTING MORE PEOPLE ENGAGED IN PUBLIC RADIO - Copper River Native Association
PURCHASING BOOKS AND SCHOOL SUPPLIES - Valdez Senior Center
DEVELOPMENT OF MEMORIAL GARDEN - Copper River Watershed Project
COST OF PERSONNEL TIME FOR PROJECT PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION, PROGRAMMING SUPPLIES TO MAINTAIN TANKS, AND TRAVEL TO VISIT CLASSROOMS - Valdez Museum & Historical Archive
FUNDING TO PLAN, CONSTRUCT, AND INITIATE A SMALL BOTANICAL GARDEN
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $24,776 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 16 | $26,612 | $1,356 |
| 2023 | 20 | $33,824 | $1,500 |
| 2024 | 19 | $37,431 | $1,850 |
| 2025 | 16 | $35,756 | $2,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,456. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Alaska.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Copper Valley Electric Association Commu's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 45, Glennallen, AK, 99588. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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