· Private foundation
Acorn Alcinda Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k51 grants · $126k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VIRGNIA TECH FOUNDATION | $81,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND | $15,000 |
| DELAWARE STRONG FAMILIES | $8,000 |
| THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN EXETER | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| WAPPING COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| SUSSEX PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER | $4,500 |
| EXETER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO 48 | $4,300 |
| THE COVENANT SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $4,000 |
| CONGO EDUCATION PARTNERS INC | $4,000 |
| ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT | $4,000 |
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, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
113 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM9× · 2017–2025 · $159k · revenue +134%- VEVirginia Education Foundation7× · 2017–2024 · $114k · revenue +714%
- FRFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- VTVIRGINIA TECH - GPS STUDYone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TITHE INSTITUTE FOR LIVINGone grant, 2017 · $9k
- FLFOREST LANDOWNERS EDUCATIONAL ASSOCone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
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How this is measured
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 155 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Virginia Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Delaware Strong Families Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSSEX PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WINDSOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INVESTMENT COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOMENADE OF GREATER SQUAMSCOTT ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER ↗
- Who funds JONI AND FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALICE LLOYD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY ABC INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED HISTORY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DELMARVA TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Elizabeth M Landon & Harriette M Landon · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · The Highland Park Families Foundation · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Harold L Wyman Foundation Inc Co Mark a Koenig
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acorn Alcinda Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acorn Alcinda Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lewes Fire Department Inc: 41% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc: 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
- Beebe Medical Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
- Mt Washington Pediatric Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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