· Private foundation
Acorn Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NC LITTLE HOSPICE INC | $100,000 |
| WASHBURN CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| HORSES FOR HEROES - NEW MEXICO INC | $45,000 |
| AGWM | $15,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $10,000 |
| ANGEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| RISE INCORPORATED | $3,000 |
| JACK'S BASKET | $3,000 |
| CARING BRIDGE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWashburn Center for Children6× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +82%
- HFHORSES FOR HEROES - NEW MEXICO INC6× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +45%
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc5× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +60%
Funded once
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +129%
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.
Honoring every moment of life, pathways hospice provides compassionate, excellent, comprehensive care for those who have an advanced medical condition and those who are grieving.
Home Health and Hospice Care provides trusted patient centered services that enhance each individual's independence and quality throughout life.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Healing hearts connection serves families and individuals who are devastated by the death of a loved one. adults and children who struggle with feelings of fear, regret, and disconnection. their isolation is broken by joining other people…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
To make trusted cancer care accessible for every patient we serve through compassion, innovation and purpose.
Capital Hospice dba Capital Caring provides hospice services that relieve the suffering of persons residing in its communities affected by life-limiting illnesses and end-of-life issues so all may live as fully and comfortably as possible.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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.
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Acorn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acorn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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