New York · Private foundation
Ackerman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $233k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,320
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 69% of the organizations Ackerman Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $233k | 39% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $148k | 69% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $207k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $32k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $71k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $138k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $179k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences | $205,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Friends of the Environment Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 3% |
| American Chestnut Restoration Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Beta Delta Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Shikar-Safari Club International | $24,757 | 4 | 1% |
| InterVol Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blackfoot Challenge Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Student-Run Business Association | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Student Agencies Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wild Sheep Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($588k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ackerman Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
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About Ackerman Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Ackerman Family Foundation Inc give?
- Ackerman Family Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $232,947 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ackerman Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Animals (11%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Ackerman Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences ($205k), Friends of the Environment Inc ($50k), American Chestnut Restoration Inc ($50k).
- Does Ackerman Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ackerman Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ackerman Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Ackerman Family Foundation Inc based?
- Ackerman Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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