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Ak Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ak 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.

$46k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0179% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$39kEducation$30kHealth$15kHuman Services$14kInternational$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kPhilanthropy$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$14,638
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL$28,357
GOANNA FOUNDATION$14,638
HIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 89% of grant dollars ($123k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($15k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEARTFULNESS INSTITUTE: $3k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%MEALS ON WHEELS: $3k → 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

VT
MT
PA
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 11% of all-years giving ($15k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Australia$15k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

30%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 4 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$40k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+23%

Still filing today

25%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’24
PhilanthropyEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • G
    GATS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $18k
  • VI
    VIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k · revenue +14%
  • HC
    HIMALAYAN CHILDREN CHARITIES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $11k

Funded once

  • TF
    TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +11%
  • OT
    ONE TREE PLANTED INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -18%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -10%
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
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
Fauna & Flora International Usa Inc

Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.

Philanthropy
4
Akshaya Patra Foundation (Usa)

The mission of the foundation is to simultaneously address childhood hunger and malnutrition and to promote education for children throughout india.

Food & Nutrition
5
School for Field Studies Inc

Sfs creates transformative study abroad experiences through field-based learning and research. our educational programs explore the human and ecological dimensions of the complex environmental problems faced by our local partners,…

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6
Farmers for Forests Inc

The mission of Farmers for Forests (F4F) is to restore and protect green cover in India in close partnership with farmers and indigenous communities. All the on-ground work is enabled by AI and multi-spectral drone technology and satellite…

Human Services
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
9
Friends of Teach for India Inc

Empowering mobilizers like teach for india with intellectual, human, and financial resources to eliminate educational inequity in india.

Education
10
Friends of Aravind Inc Dba Aravind Eye Foundation Inc

The purpose of the corporation is to engage in such activity as may be necessary, appropriate or otherwise helpful to support, provide assistance to or perform functions of aravind eye hospital and postgraduate institute of ophthamology…

Health
11
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
12
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Everglades 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

12 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. 12 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GATS: $17,500 · OtherGATSGOANNA FOUNDATION: $14,638 · OtherGOANNA FOUNDATIONHIMALAYAN CHILDREN CHARITIES: $10,700 · OtherHIMALAYAN CHILDREN CHARITIES+5 more: $2,670 · Other+5 moreRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $28,357 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL…ATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $17,475 · EnvironmentTREES FOR THE FUTUR…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,843 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUN…ONE TREE PLANTED INC: $11,503 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLA…HIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $3,000 · PhilanthropyHIMALAYAN CH…TAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTAMIL NADU F…VIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW: $10,950 · InternationalVIBHA INC…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 · Human ServicesHEARTFULNESS INSTITUTE: $2,500 · Human ServicesMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $4,334 · Recreation & Sports
Other$45,508Education$29,857Environment$23,318Philanthropy$15,503International$10,950Human Services$8,000Recreation & Sports$4,334

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $28,357 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $17,475 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $11,503 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIBHA INC AKA HELP THEM GROW: $10,950 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $5,843 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $4,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTFULNESS INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MIDDLE GEORGIA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAMIL NADU FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Verizon FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Verizon FoundationNJ15× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Ak Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ak Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report 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.

    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 20 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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