· Private foundation
Ackerman Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNGLEKEEPERS | $50,048 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT | $25,000 |
| STUDENT AGENCIES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| AMAZON RESEARCH CONSERVATION COLLAB | $10,000 |
| ELBOW REEF FOUNDATION | $3,346 |
| SHIKAR-SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL | $2,577 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $2,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| NY ABORTION ACCESS FUND | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| END OVERDOSE | $1,000 |
| KENMORE WEST ALUMNI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HFL YOUTH LACROSSE | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your 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
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BSBUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES3× · 2019–2021 · $200k · revenue +10%
- BDBETA DELTA FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue ×27
- SCShikar-Safari Club International3× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- VFVIPS FOR KIDS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MMMASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $50k
- SBSTUDENT-RUN BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Amsny, the statewide consortium of medical schools in new york, works with its academic, scientific, healthcare, patient advocacy and business partners to advance medical education, biomedical research, and healthcare delivery. this unique…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…
The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
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.
Please see description for form 990, part i, line 1 on schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Sheep Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Student Agencies Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BETA DELTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Shikar-Safari Club International ↗
- Who funds STUDENT AGENCIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ELBOW REEF FOUNDATION INC CO CHAMBERLIN OWEN & CO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ABORTION ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE HOUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds END OVERDOSE ↗
- Who funds KENMORE WEST ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HFL YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Ackerman Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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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