· Private foundation
Acworth Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Royal Grammer School | $10,000 |
| Holland Hall School | $10,000 |
| Savannah Country Day School | $10,000 |
| Abbey School | $10,000 |
| Holton Arms School | $10,000 |
| Park School of Baltimore | $10,000 |
| University of Chicago Laboratory Sc | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Berkely Carrol School | $10,000 |
| Waynflete School | $10,000 |
| Indian Springs School | $10,000 |
| Boston University Academy | $10,000 |
| Commonwealth School | $10,000 |
| King's College School | $10,000 |
| Isidore Newman School | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($1.6M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($385k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($385k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
University of Chicago7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +25%- TPTHE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +24%
- THTHE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…
Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
Wheeler is an independent, college preparatory day school serving students nursery through grade 12 whose mission is derived from the ideal of its founder, mary c wheeler, "to learn our powers and be answerable for their use."
Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
Annie wright's strong community cultivates individual learners to become well-educated, creative and responsible citizens for a global society.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Concord academy is a community animated by love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation. honoring each individual, we challenge and expand our understanding of ourselves and the world through…
Miss porter's school educates young women to become informed, bold, resourceful and ethical global citizens. we expect our graduates to shape a changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School and the most unlike its peers is University of Chicago. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 64 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE PARK SCHOOL OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLTON ARMS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WAYNFLETE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ISIDORE NEWMAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PACKER COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARET SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Malone Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · United Way Worldwide · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Edward E Ford Foundation Xxxxx2009 · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Acworth Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.