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Academy Foundation for the Future

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$447k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
92%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$34,480
Largest grant, FY2024
$407,690
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 92% of the organizations Academy Foundation for the Future funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$447k67%
FY202312$138k92%
FY20223$48k100%
FY20212$34kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$408kInternational$162kHuman Services$63kYouth Development$20kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$5kEducation$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
ID
OR
PA
CA
UT
AZ
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Academy Foundation for the Future by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Kessler Family Foundation$407,690193%
Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc$55,50010%
Rise Against Hunger Inc$24,17110%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley$10,03010%
Setpath$10,00012%
Alaska Junior Theater Inc$5,00011%
Santas Posse$5,00014%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$5,00010%
Ocj Kids$1,30010%
Maxs Kicks for Kids Inc$1,0001n/a
United Way of St Johns County Inc$60010%
The Bradley Center for Grieving Children$60011%
Back to School$2471n/a

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Academy Foundation for the Future supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 11 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kessler Family Foundation: $407,690 over 1y, 93% of budgetSleep in Heavenly Peace Inc: $55,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRise Against Hunger Inc: $24,171 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley: $10,030 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSetpath: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAlaska Junior Theater Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSantas Posse: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCamp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOcj Kids: $1,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of St Johns County Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bradley Center for Grieving Children: $600 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Academy Foundation for the Future?

Find your warmest path to Academy Foundation for the Future through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Academy Foundation for the Future

How much does Academy Foundation for the Future give?
Academy Foundation for the Future reported 3 grants totaling $447,170 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Academy Foundation for the Future fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (61%), International (24%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Academy Foundation for the Future's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: The Kessler Family Foundation ($408k), Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc ($56k), Rise Against Hunger Inc ($24k).
Does Academy Foundation for the Future fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 92% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Academy Foundation for the Future accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Academy Foundation for the Future?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Academy Foundation for the Future based?
Academy Foundation for the Future is based in UT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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