· Private foundation
Acker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| STANSALMS CHURCH | $4,000 |
| ANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| STONY BROOK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ROLLINS COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| STJUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| HOPE CHILDRENS FUND | $2,500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| JTM FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LONG ISLAND MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,500 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RCROLLINS COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +53%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +78%- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA5× · 2020–2024 · $15k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IGINDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +11%
- SCSUFFOLK COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $4k
- SCSUNY CORTLANDone grant, 2023 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ROLLINS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ANDREW MCMORRIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT GROUP HOME LIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE CHILDRENS FUND LTD ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 5% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Rollins College: 0% of income from government
- Bentley University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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