· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $214,707 |
| CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CATAWBA LAND CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| JAZZ ARTS CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE INC | $15,000 |
| ARTS PLUS | $15,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE NEUROSCIENCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WING HAVEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL CAROL | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUND | $5,000 |
| ALLEGRO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $174k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of Akers 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. Read by recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 34% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $215k 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
- CRCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +267%
- WHWing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary8× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +14%
- CLCatawba Lands Conservancy9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- DSDANIEL STOWE BOTANICAL GARDENSone grant, 2023 · $20k
- MPMEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +484%
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.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
To enhance the health status of those we serve in partnership with medical staff and other community organizations by providing wellness services, health education, training, and access to safe high quality health care services.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
To perpetuate a village community to provide progressive life assistance to adults with developmental disabilities so that they can maximize their abilities and maintain their independence in the least restrictive environment.
Sustain Charlotte's mission is to create a more equitable, connected, and healthy community by inspiring responsible growth and transportation choices.
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Inspires the love of nature and cultivates environmental understanding and stewardship by: (1)Conserving and enhancing Dunwoody Park (2)Educating children, families and adults of all ages about the natural world and our place in…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.
Greenspaces exists to further sustainability in the chattanooga region, by promoting and developing environmentally preferable practices for living, working and building.
The market at 7th street is a mission-based nonprofit that combines culinary and retail innovation, economic opportunity, and a sense of belonging. the market: 1) incubates new food and retail businesses, 2) supports economic mobility…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 32% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 22% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 56 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
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 CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wing Haven Foundation Inc DBA Wing Haven Garden & Bird Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds Catawba Lands Conservancy ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ArtsPlus ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEST MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZARTS CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUCKHEAD CHRISTIAN MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Neuroscience Foundation DBA Memory and Movement Charlotte ↗
- Who funds ASCENSA HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA URBAN SQUASH INC D/B/A A SQUASH ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIREDU INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN RECIPE INC ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds PATH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKSTONE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
- Who funds Chastain Park Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds CHASTAIN HORSE PARK LTD ↗
- Who funds CHATTAHOOCHEE NATURE CENTER INC ↗
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: 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
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 Akers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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