· Private foundation
Akerson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $155k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $540k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK | $150,000 |
| SARAH SEDEK CO UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN | $44,676 |
| ALEXANDRA CARAUS CO VIRGINIA TECH U | $15,000 |
| JUSTIN GARCIA CO VIRGINIA TECH UNIV | $14,095 |
| ANILA ZIAI CO GEORGE MASON UNIVERSI | $12,555 |
| TAREK KHALIFA CO UVA COLLEGE AT WIS | $12,500 |
| HEROMEN NEGASH CO UNIVERSITY OF VIR | $12,500 |
| AMEERAH BYFIELD CO GEORGE MASON UNI | $12,500 |
| SUSHMITA CHOWDHURY CO VIRGINIA TECH | $12,500 |
| DYLAN CAIA PLUMMER CO UNIVERSITY OF | $12,500 |
| DAVINA GYAMFI CO UNIVERSITY OF VIRG | $12,500 |
| RUTH FIKRU KEBEBEW CO VIRGINIA COMM | $12,500 |
| ABENEZER GELASHE CO VIRGINIA TECH U | $12,500 |
| WEHBE EL HADJ SIDI CO GEORGE MASON | $12,500 |
| PERLA BELLEN CABRERA TORRES CO GEOR | $12,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 75 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $695k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $950k · revenue +39%
- WSWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS3× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue -36%
- HKHORTON'S KIDS INC4× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $500k
- ECEVERY1 CAN WORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +65%
- TMTravis Manion Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +61%
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.
Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.
Martha's table works to support stronger children, stronger families, and stronger communities by increasing access to quality education programs, healthy food, and family supports.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
Freshfarm is a washington, dc-based nonprofit that builds a more equitable, sustainable, and resilient food system in the mid-atlantic region by producing innovative solutions in partnership with local communities and organizations. we…
The fund for american studies (tfas) seeks to create a brighter, more prosperous future by preparing young people for leadership and teaching them the ideas of freedom and a free-market economy. founded in 1967, tfas organizes programs for…
Keswick school was founded in 1963 as little keswick school by bob and libby wilson, two local public school teachers who started the school on their 25 acre farm (little keswick farm) outside of charlottesville, va. initially a summer…
Cultivate local food systems prioritizing health, equity, and sustainability, from farm forward.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
We use food as a tool to strengthen bodies, empower minds, and build communities. dcck prepares people facing high barriers to employment for culinary careers, and creates jobs for our graduates through innovative programs that expand…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 163 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Akerson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Akerson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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