· Private foundation
Academy Foundation for the Future
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $250k+1 grant · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KESSLER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $407,690 |
| SIXTO STALIN TUSTON TORRES | $34,480 |
| ALASKA JUNIOR THEATER | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($580k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($87k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($87k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Help kids get through and deal with trauma
Shine provides food for high school students on weekends along with health services such as eye exams, free physicals, and dental exams. during christmas shine donates gifts and necessities to students and their families.
The mission of StandUp for Kids is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. We do this every day in cities across America. We carry out our mission through our volunteers, who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help…
Rjs Kids was founded with the intent to support underserved individuals that reside with-in the closed community of Vashon-Maury Island. The BARC skatepark was the result of a direct ask from community members
Advocates on behalf of abused and neglected Children. Mobilizing our community to break the vicious cycle of child abuse and neglect and provide outstanding advocacy for abused and neglected children who are in the juvenile court system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Johns County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Kessler Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE KESSLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SETPATH ↗
- Who funds Alaska Junior Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTAS POSSE ↗
- Who funds OCJ KIDS ↗
- Who funds Maxs Kicks for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOHNS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Bradley Center for Grieving Children ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Academy Foundation for the Future funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- United Way of St Johns County Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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