North Carolina · Private foundation
Akers Foundation 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.
- $380k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $214,707
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Akers Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $380k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $395k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $270k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $220k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $300k | 3% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $300k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $209k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $210k | 18% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc | $180,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary | $150,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Catawba Lands Conservancy | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Shepherd Center Inc | $125,000 | 8 | 0% |
| ArtsPlus | $100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jazzarts Charlotte | $75,000 | 7 | 2% |
| George West Mental Health Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Discovery Place Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Midtown Assistance Center Inc | $66,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Atlanta Historical Society Inc | $61,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($506k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Akers Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · Foundation for the Carolinas · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Duke Energy Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Dickson Foundation Inc · Dowd Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Akers Foundation Inc
- How much does Akers Foundation Inc give?
- Akers Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $379,707 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Akers Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (21%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Akers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation Inc ($180k), Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ($150k), Catawba Lands Conservancy ($140k).
- Does Akers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Akers 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 Akers Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atl Fdn-W Peters Main, The Imlay Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc.
- Where is Akers Foundation Inc based?
- Akers Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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