· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| ARTS PLUS | $15,000 |
| JAZZ ARTS CHARLOTTE | $15,000 |
| DISCOVERY PLACE INC | $15,000 |
| WING HAVEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROOKSTONE SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| CHARLOTTE NEUROSCIENCE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CENTRAL CAROL | $5,000 |
| ALLEGRO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 37% of Akers Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 59% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 34%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- ASART SCIENCE COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TGTHE GIVING KITCHEN INITIATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +484%
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.
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.
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.
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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…
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Akers Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Akers Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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