Skip to content

· Private foundation

Akc Fund Inc

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.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$368kEducation$301kEnvironment$242kPublic Safety & Disaster$173kReligion$140kHuman Services$105kFood & Nutrition$99kInternational$98kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k24 grants · $108k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$7,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$53,000
GREAT MOUNTAIN FOREST CORPORATION$27,000
Individual grant recipient$23,000
STERLING COLLEGE$22,000
WALKER THERAPEUTIC AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS$20,000
CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL$15,000
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$15,000
Individual grant recipient$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BEAT THE STREETS$10,000
PTA OF PS133K INC$10,000
COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE$10,000
BITTERROOT EARLY LEARNING NETWORK$10,000
TRINITY EPISCORAL CHURCH$10,000
INTERVALE CENTER$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $50k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $10k → 11%COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE: $10k → 20%MOVING IN THE SPIRIT: $10k → 14%RURAL ARTS COLLABRATIVE: $3k → 14%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP: $6k → 17%NEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 17%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT: $2k → 9%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
NH
WA
MT
WI
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
NM
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Akc Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Akc Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 53 repeat orgs$574k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
47

Total granted

$1.3M
$427k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+12%

Still filing today

64%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • NV
    NORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $129k · revenue +64% · 60% of their budget
  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $90k · revenue +38%
  • UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • EB
    ELLEN BATTELL STOECKEL TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • NC
    NORFOLK CENTER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +58%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
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
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Passage Inc; the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 118 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/80
Grantees still filing
48/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL: $127,000 · OtherCHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONALUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $72,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF DELAWAREIndividual grant recipient: $50,500 · OtherELLEN BATTELL STOECKEL TRUST: $50,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $40,000 · OtherINTERVALE CENTER INC: $42,000 · Other+67 more: $667,569 · Other+67 moreISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWA…NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST CONN…PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX …AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURAL…FRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLA…NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $15,500 · Arts & CultureNEXT STAGE ART…O MIAMI INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureO MIAMI INC+2 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureBERWICK ACADEMY: $67,000 · EducationBERWICK AC…STERLING COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationSTERLING C…WALKER INC: $20,000 · EducationWALKER INCClemente Course in the Humanities Inc: $15,000 · EducationClemente C…THE PTA OF PS 133K INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE PTA OF…NORFOLK LIBRARY INC: $12,000 · EducationNORFOLK LI…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOO…+8 more: $21,500 · Education+8 moreNORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $129,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE DUMMERSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCENTER FOR NORTHERN WOODLANDS EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC: $60,300 · EnvironmentMONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentATON FOREST INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · EnvironmentREUNITY RESOURCES: $10,000 · EnvironmentHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INC: $20,000 · InternationalWATERORG: $15,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $15,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $9,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC: $8,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $5,000 · InternationalGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $54,000 · PhilanthropyWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $10,000 · PhilanthropyNORFOLK FOUNDATION INC: $7,200 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,049,569Arts & Culture$239,000Education$182,500Public Safety & Disaster$149,000Environment$128,300International$82,500Philanthropy$82,200

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 budgetNORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $129,000 over 6y, 60% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $72,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERWICK ACADEMY: $67,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORFOLK LAND TRUST INC: $60,300 over 6y, 30% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $54,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetINTERVALE CENTER INC: $42,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetNORFOLK CENTER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $22,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSTERLING COLLEGE: $22,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWALKER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetIntermountain Planned Parenthood: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PASSAGE INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC: $15,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetClemente Course in the Humanities Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSpecial Hope Network: $15,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE PTA OF PS 133K INC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNORFOLK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 7.8% of budgetWATERORG: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetO MIAMI INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetATON FOREST INC: $12,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetNORFOLK LIBRARY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNEW NEIGHBORS PARTNERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $11,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMONTANA CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DUMMERSTON FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetThe Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDING DARLING WILDLIFE SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR ADVANCEMENT IN CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS AREA DIAPER BANK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOOL GIRLS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetREUNITY RESOURCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBITTERROOT EARLY LEARNING NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBeat The Streets Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWELCOME NEIGHBOR STL: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNORFOLK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 12% 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.

  • Who funds NORFOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE ↗
  • Who funds BERWICK ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds NORFOLK LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Great Mountain Forest Corporation ↗
  • Who funds INTERVALE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENAGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA RENEWABLE ENERGY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NORFOLK CENTER CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WALKER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF SEVA MANDIR INC ↗
  • Who funds Intermountain Planned Parenthood ↗
  • Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Clemente Course in the Humanities Inc ↗
  • Who funds Special Hope Network ↗
  • Who funds THE PTA OF PS 133K INC ↗
  • Who funds NORFOLK HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WATERORG ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds O MIAMI INC ↗

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 William and Mary Greve Foundation IncCT28.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Lsj Charitable Corporation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Tuw Evan Hughes Charitable Trust · K and M Meyer Foundation Inc · The Hartley Corporation

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 Akc Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Akc Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Winsted Health Center Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Connecticut Main Street Center Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Norfolk Land Trust Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Norfolk Center Cemetery Association Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc: 38% of income from government
  • University of Delaware: 30% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • The Green Mountain Club Inc Debonis: 17% of income from government
  • Intervale Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Sterling College: 10% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Grammar School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • O Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
  • American Mural Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Craftsbury Public Library Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Akc Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Akc Fund 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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Akc’s filings →

More from the funding graph