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Act Foundation Inc

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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$8.2MAnimals$2.0MPublic Benefit$1.5MPhilanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$1.1MRecreation & Sports$376kEnvironment$225kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $855k
  • $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$1,360,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHATTANOOGA INC$955,983
WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS INC$500,000
ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC$250,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$240,000
NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND$140,000
UTAH FILM CENTER$100,000
HARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE$100,000
HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY$75,000
THE NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC$50,000
NOAH'S ARK REHABILITATION CENTER INC$50,000
NOAH'S ARK REHABILITATION CENTER INC$50,000
NOAH'S ARK REHABILITATION CENTER INC$50,000
NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND$32,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECIAL OPERATION CARE FUND INC: $10k → 13%KING STREET CENTER INC: $5k → 10%SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND: $10k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $8k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $8k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $8k → 13%MEALS ON WHEELS ATLANTA: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
TN
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 33 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
29

Total granted

$14M
$809k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+35%

Still filing today

88%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $691k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Vanderbilt University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +57%
  • EH
    ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +31%
  • AF
    ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL
    3× · 2019–2021 · $600k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TG
    THE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +35%
  • AS
    APF SUPPORT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -8%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +97%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
American Friends of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation

To promote networking, exchange, and creative collaboration among scientists, scholars, artists, and professionals in the u.s. and germany consistent with the goals of the alexander von humboldt foundation.

Education
5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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6
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
9
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
Americans for Medical Progress Educational Foundation

Dedicated to protecting your investment in biomedical research. we focus on public outreach that builds understanding and appreciation for necessary and humane animal research. we also provide vital news, information and analysis to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Brayden Cole Hinck 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 75 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Vanderbilt University: $6,490,000 · EducationVanderbilt UniversityENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $1,500,000 · EducationENTITLEMENTS HOW INCThe Westminster Schools Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationThe Westminster Schools IncALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $600,000 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL+3 more: $86,666 · EducationNoah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc: $750,250 · AnimalsNoah's Ark An…NORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND: $400,000 · AnimalsNORTH ATLANTI…Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $265,000 · AnimalsAtlantic Salm…INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $250,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL…Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $80,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $80,000 · Animals+3 more: $96,000 · AnimalsThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $955,983 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $150,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $40,435 · PhilanthropyROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $510,000 · Arts & CultureHARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE: $110,000 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureATLANTA PRESERVATION CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherCLEVELAND…NOAH'S ARK REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $150,000 · OtherNOAH'S AR…CAMP SUNSHINE INC: $80,000 · OtherCAMP SUNS…FRIENDS OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK INC: $50,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN …GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · OtherGREAT SMO…APF SUPPORT INC: $150,000 · OtherAPF SUPPO…HARBOR HALL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+22 more: $314,000 · Other+22 moreThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $450,000 · HealthMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 · HealthMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 · Health+4 more: $50,000 · HealthPATH FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $11,000 · Recreation & Sports
Education$9,676,666Animals$1,921,250Philanthropy$1,146,418Arts & Culture$1,140,000Other$1,319,000Health$715,000Recreation & Sports$376,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVanderbilt University: $6,490,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $1,500,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $955,983 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNoah's Ark Animal Rehabilitation Center and Sanctuary Inc: $750,250 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $600,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $510,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH ATLANTIC SALMON FUND: $400,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetPATH FOUNDATION INC: $365,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc: $265,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $250,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAPF SUPPORT INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE: $110,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetATLANTA PRESERVATION CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFORWARD ARTS FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $75,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetGREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAtlanta Speech School Inc: $66,666 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARBOR HALL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING HOPE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOUNT COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpty Stocking Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetATLANTA FULTON COUNTY ZOO INC: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCE-ATLANTA Corp: $20,000 over 3y, 63% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMANNA ON MAIN STREET: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN GI FORUM NATIONAL VETERANS OUTREACH PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES OF CHILDREN UNDER STRESS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSNOWDROP FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Ge Aerospace Foundati…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Enterprise Holdings F…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA20× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Act Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Act Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • King Street Center Inc: 43% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Act Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Act Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 75 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home