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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k54 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $904k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC | $225,000 |
| EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC | $129,640 |
| NPOWER NY INC | $125,000 |
| FFWD | $125,000 |
| FAB FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT | $100,000 |
| PER SCHOLAS INC | $100,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE AND THE PUBLIC | $100,000 |
| DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL | $75,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION | $57,000 |
| BOSTON CARES INC | $55,250 |
| FUNDACJA MAMO PRACUJ | $50,000 |
| CYBERTRUST MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
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 — 86% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 14% that went abroad ($1.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those 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 — 14% of all-years giving ($1.9M)
15 countries, 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 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Akamai Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 29 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $925k · revenue +73%- HGHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT6× · 2019–2024 · $590k · revenue +551%
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $380k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SFSWASTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $100k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $83k · revenue -51%
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $83k · revenue -45%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Asian Mental Health Collective Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 245 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 GIVINGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE & THE PUBLIC ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds FFWD ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Excellence in Education ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CARES INC ↗
- Who funds Hack the Hood Inc ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Innovators for Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds ChickTech ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL COMMUNITIES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds IT WOMEN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALCULUS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO STEM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Scientific Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation
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 Akamai Foundation Inc 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.
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- National Council for the Traditional Arts — 53% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Girl Scout Council of Tropical Florida Inc — 14% of income from government
- Groundwork Somerville Inc — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Complete Player Charity Ltd — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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