Virginia · Private foundation
Akerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $845k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 76
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 50
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Akerson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Food & NutritionPhilanthropyEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 76 | $845k | 99% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $512k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $415k | 90% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $396k | 70% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $211k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $210k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $553k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $867k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$2.1MFood & Nutrition$805kYouth Development$115kEmployment$37kHuman Services$35kHealth$25kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
IL
MI
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
TN
DC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $950,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington School for Girls | $850,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Horton's Kids Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Every1 Can Work | $37,360 | 1 | 5% |
| Travis Manion Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Langley School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| James Madison University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bread for the City Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Naturebridge | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capital Area Food Bank Inc | $950,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington School for Girls | $850,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Horton's Kids Inc | $115,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Every1 Can Work | $37,360 | 1 | 5% |
| Travis Manion Foundation | $35,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Langley School Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| James Madison University | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bread for the City Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Naturebridge | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Kiefer Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 152 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Akerson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.
About Akerson Family Foundation
- How much does Akerson Family Foundation give?
- Akerson Family Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $844,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 50 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Akerson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Food & Nutrition (25%), Youth Development (4%).
- Who are Akerson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Capital Area Food Bank Inc ($950k), Washington School for Girls ($850k), Horton's Kids Inc ($115k).
- Does Akerson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Akerson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Akerson Family Foundation based?
- Akerson Family Foundation is based in VA.
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