How to apply
Accepts applications
The return gives an application contact and rules, as below.
- Contact
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The Ciri Foundation
3201 C Street Suite 506
Anchorage, AK 99503
(907) 793-3575
- Form and materials
- On-line applications are required for general semester scholarships, merit awards, vocational training grants, fellowship awards and other scholarships and grants. Paper applications may be used for internships, village, raven, and other project grant applications. Please see the ciri foundation's website at: www.thecirifoundation.org. Please see additional details regarding the application process at the following website: www.thecirifoundation.org.
- Deadlines
- Please see the foundation's website at www.thecirifoundation.org for submission deadline details.
- Restrictions
- TCF supports post-secondary education and career development for eligible applicants through scholarships and grants. Eligible applicants include: ciri original enrollees and their direct lineal descendants TCF administers raven fund scholarships and grants, serving ciri voting shareholders who are not ciri original enrollees or their direct lineal descendants. TCF administers various village scholarship and grant programs for ciri affiliated villages based on their program. TCF offers project grants to non-profit organizations, tribal organizations, and occasionally individuals sponsored by a non-profit organization who are alaska native original enrollees to ciri or their lineal descendants. These grants are available to support projects that affect and/or involve alaska native beneficiaries of ciri and further the education and heritage goals of the ciri foundation. Please see additional details at www.thecirifoundation.org.
Assets and giving by year
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Tax year 2024
$2,255,023
- Grants listed
- 250
- Assets, end of year
- $63,872,272
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Tax year 2023
$3,274,554
- Grants listed
- 808
- Assets, end of year
- $59,623,492
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Tax year 2022
$2,543,167
- Grants listed
- 626
- Assets, end of year
- $55,325,069
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Tax year 2021
$2,839,082
- Grants listed
- 671
- Assets, end of year
- $68,131,766
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Tax year 2020
$2,763,923
- Grants listed
- 673
- Assets, end of year
- $65,227,557
Grants paid in 2024
As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.
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Grants Less Than 5000Anchorage, AK
General funding
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Hydaburg City School DistrictHydaburg, AK
Arts and cultural award
$20,339 -
Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK
Arts and cultural award
$20,000 -
Museums Alaska IncAnchorage, AK
Arts and cultural award
$20,000 -
Chickaloon Native VillageChickaloon, AK
Arts and cultural award
$20,000 -
Organized Village of KwethlukKwethluk, AK
Arts and cultural award
$15,000 -
Salamatof TribeKenai, AK
Arts and cultural award
$15,000 -
Bunnell Street Arts CenterHomer, AK
Arts and cultural award
$15,000 -
Quinhagak Heritage IncorporatedQuinhagak, AK
Arts and cultural award
$15,000 -
Museum of the Aleutians AssociationUnalaska, AK
Arts and cultural award
$15,000 -
Morris Thompson Cultural and Visitors CenterFairbanks, AK
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$14,850 -
First Light Alaska IncAnchorage, AK
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$10,000 -
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Qawalangin Tribe of UnalaskaUnalaska, AK
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$7,800 -
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$7,800 -
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$7,000 -
Goldbelt Heritage FoundationJuneau, AK
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$7,000 -
Old Harbor Alliance IncOld Harbor, AK
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$7,000 -
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$6,800 -
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$6,000 -
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$6,000 -
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$6,000 -
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$6,000 -
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Post secondary education
$5,500 -
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$5,500 -
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$5,495 -
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$5,400 -
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$5,200 -
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Native Village of Eyak Traditional CouncilCordova, AK
Arts and cultural award
$5,000 -
Kodiak Historical SocietyKodiak, AK
Arts and cultural award
$5,000 -
Alutiiq MuseumKodiak, AK
Arts and cultural award
$4,640 -
Denali Arts CouncilTalkeetna, AK
Arts and cultural award
$3,000
Where the money goes
By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.
- Arts and culture5 grants $52,00066% of the total
- Health1 grant $20,00025% of the total
- Education1 grant $7,0009% of the total
By State
Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.
- Alaska19 grants $771,403
Officers, directors and trustees
As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.
- Connie WirzCEO Hours 40Pay $159,676
- Jeff GonnasonCHAIRMAN Hours 0.5Pay $6,250
- Ryan NewtonSECRETARY/TREASURER Hours 0.5Pay $5,350
- Deanna SackettDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $4,250
- Jessica GreinerDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $4,000
- Susan WellsDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $3,500
- Kyla MorrisVICE PRESIDENT Hours 40Pay $0
- Louis Nagy JrVICE CHAIRMAN Hours 0.5Pay $0
- Cheryl WilgaDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
- Cynthia MullerDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
- Rayna BirdDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
- Daniel MitchellDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
- Donna JamesDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
- David WightDIRECTOR Hours 0.5Pay $0
The return
More foundations
- Private foundations in Alaska
- Private foundations in Anchorage
- Foundations that fund arts and culture in Alaska
- Foundations that fund health in Alaska
- Foundations that fund education in Alaska
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Same main cause (arts and culture), giving between a quarter and four times this foundation’s where possible, nearby first.
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