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Academy Foundation for the Future

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$447k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$408k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
  • $250k+1 grant · $408k
$34,480
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KESSLER FAMILY FOUNDATION$407,690
SIXTO STALIN TUSTON TORRES$34,480
ALASKA JUNIOR THEATER$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OCJ KIDDS: $1k → 11%MAX'S KICKS FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 6%BRADLEY CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $600 → 8%SANTA'S POSSE: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
WA
ID
OR
PA
CA
UT
AZ
NC
FL

Beyond the US: 13% of all-years giving ($87k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Ecuador$87k · 2 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Kidsnpajn Co

Help kids get through and deal with trauma

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2
Kennys Kids
Philanthropy
3
Kids Under the Radar
Human Services
4
Warrior Kids Foundation
Health
5
Kids Who Give Inc
Philanthropy
6
Shine Together

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.

Public Benefit
7
Just Jess Foundation
Recreation & Sports
8
Hatchers Stocking Inc
Human Services
9
StandUp for Kids

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…

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10
Rj's Kids

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

Youth Development
11
Max for Kids
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12
ProKids

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.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Johns County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE KESSLER FAMILY FOUNDATION: $407,690 · PhilanthropyTHE KESSLER FAMILY FOUNDATIONSIXTO STALIN TUSTON TORRES: $87,310 · OtherSIXTO STALIN TUSTON TORR…Individual grant recipient: $39,890 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…WARM BODIES WARM SOULS: $10,155 · OtherWARM BODIES WARM SOULS+4 more: $4,712 · OtherSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $55,500 · Housing & ShelterSLEEP IN …RISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $24,171 · InternationalBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTH VALLEY: $10,030 · Youth DevelopmentSETPATH: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTAS POSSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesOCJ KIDS: $1,300 · Human ServicesMaxs Kicks for Kids Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Bradley Center for Grieving Children: $600 · Human ServicesAlaska Junior Theater Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$407,690Other$142,067Housing & Shelter$55,500International$24,171Youth Development$20,030Human Services$7,900Arts & Culture$5,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Academy Foundation for the Future funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Academy Foundation for the Future. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of St Johns County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
04Through Plinth

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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.

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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