Massachusetts · Private foundation
Akamai 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 118
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 90
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $63M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Akamai Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 91 | $2.3M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $2.6M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $2.5M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 79 | $1.6M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $1.5M | 81% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $880k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $430k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeastern University | $925,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hidden Genius Project | $590,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc | $379,640 | 3 | 0% |
| Society for Science & the Public | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Npower Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mathematical Association of America Inc | $349,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Girls Who Code Inc | $345,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Ffwd | $345,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $275,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 184 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Akamai Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 170 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Akamai Foundation Inc
- How much does Akamai Foundation Inc give?
- Akamai Foundation Inc reported 118 grants totaling $2,696,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Akamai Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (28%), Philanthropy (14%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are Akamai Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northeastern University ($925k), Hidden Genius Project ($590k), Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc ($380k).
- Does Akamai Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Akamai Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Akamai Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Akamai Foundation Inc based?
- Akamai Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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