Colorado · Private foundation
Ackerman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $540k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Ackerman Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k 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 | 23 | $540k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $450k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $375k | 59% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $265k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $380k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $355k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $396k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $316k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $175,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Heartspring Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado | $140,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Arrupe Jesuit High School | $135,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Association of the Graduates of the United States Military Academy | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| One Acre Fund | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Denver Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Operation Homefront Inc | $99,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ukraine House DC Foundation Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($329k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ackerman Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Baird Foundation Inc · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · The Service Club of Chicago · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Helen V Brach Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Tides Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation
How this is measured
About Ackerman Foundation Inc
- How much does Ackerman Foundation Inc give?
- Ackerman Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $540,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ackerman Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Education (20%), Health (16%).
- Who are Ackerman Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Semper Fi & America's Fund ($175k), Heartspring Inc ($165k), Florence Crittenton Services of Colorado ($140k).
- Does Ackerman Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ackerman Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ackerman Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baird Foundation Inc, The Albert Pick Jr Fund, The Service Club of Chicago.
- Where is Ackerman Foundation Inc based?
- Ackerman Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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