· Private foundation
Ackerman Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $484k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGACY MINISTRIES INC | $50,000 |
| OPERATION HOMEFRONT | $49,000 |
| UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $26,000 |
| BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLECTIVE | $26,000 |
| STRONGMINDS | $25,000 |
| WORLD CONNECT | $25,000 |
| MIDDLE EAST CHILDRENS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $25,000 |
| SEMPER FI FUNDS | $25,000 |
| JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE | $25,000 |
| WEST POINT ASSOCIATION OF GRADUATES | $25,000 |
| POINT FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS | $21,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $660k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
47 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 26 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND8× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +40%
- HIHEARTSPRING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $165k · revenue +19%
- FCFLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO8× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- PCPartners Creating Community Incone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- WEWISHFORWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k
- LILong Island Cares Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +49%
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.
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Social current's mission as developed and approved by its board of directors is to advocate for and implement equitable solutions to society's toughest challenges through collaboration, innovation, policy, and practice excellence.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Children's services
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…
Empowering the competitive excellence and well-being of team usa athletes, championing the power of sport, and inspiring the nation.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 60 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 SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds WELL OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LITERATURE FOR ALL OF US ↗
- Who funds BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIREBIRD COMMUNITY ARTS ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAVE DREAMS ↗
- Who funds PASS WITH FLYING COLORS INC ↗
- Who funds Almost Home Kids ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds STRONGMINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Partners Creating Community Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN CHILD RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOVE UNITED ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS FOR ALL CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF COOK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ackerman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ackerman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Move United: 16% of income from government
How this is measured
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