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· Private foundation
AKERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$590k
Granted FY2025
24
Grants
4
Communities
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of AKERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
los ninos
2020
los ninos
2021
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2022
—
2023
—
2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
- AMERICAN HEART STROKE ASSOC$40,000
- HOPE WORKS$40,000
- MEALS ON WHEELS$38,000
- HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS$36,000
- JOY JUNCTION$36,000
- CAMP ENCHANTMENT$36,000
- ST FELIX PANTRY$33,000
- NORBERTINE COMMUNITY$30,000
- THE STOREHOUSE$28,000
- CASA ANGELICA$25,000
- ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$25,000
- BIBLE PROJECT$25,000
- BARRETT FOUNDATION$23,000
- OUTCOMES INC$23,000
- CENTRO SAVILA$20,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $136k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.5M · 36 repeat orgs$276k to everyone else
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
36
8
Total granted
$3.5M
$256k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+21%
+72%
Still filing today
22%
13%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationReligionOther
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
- SFST FELIX PANTRY8× · 2018–2025 · $209k · revenue +6%
- OIOUTCOMES INC8× · 2018–2025 · $141k · revenue +18%
- BFBARRETT FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $109k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2017 · $100k
- AAALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION - WALKone grant, 2018 · $50k
- HCHOPE CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $42k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Enlace Comunatario
Enlace comunitario transforms lives of individuals and their families experiencing domestic violence by working to decrease gender inequity and intimate partner violence in the latino immigrant community in central new mexico. enlace…
Community Improvement
2
La Luz Organization Inc
La Luz Organization helps the underserved Latino population in Oklahoma with culturally and faith based trauma-informed services to victims of domestic violence,sexual assault and stalking.
Human Services
3
Parents Reaching Out to Help
To enhance positive outcomes for families in new mexico through informed decision making, advocacy, education, and resources by providing networking opportunities for families to connect and support each other.
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4
La Casa De Buena Salud Inc
La Casa de Buena Salud, Inc. doing business as La Casa Family Health Center and doing business as La Casa Community Behavioral Health is an innovative, community-based financially resourceful, total health care organization committed to…
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5
Esperanza Shelter Inc
To conduct a program of social services, advocacy and education, designed to alleviate the problem of domestic violence in north central new mexico with the stated goals of protecting people from abuse, neglect and exploitation, and to…
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6
La Casa Inc
Provide emergency shelter care for adult persons and their children who are victims of domestic violence, and educate the community about the problems related to domestic violence is all its forms.
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7
Arizona Wins
Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans.
Civil Rights
8
NeighborWorks Housing Services of
To promote healthy, vibrant neighborhoods and serve as a first choice for homebuyers in Southern Colorado.
Housing & Shelter
9
Community Foundation of Southern
The Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico serves as a community resource, connects donors to needs, and supports charitable organizations in their work.
Philanthropy
10
Pueblo Rescue Mission
Because of our love for God, we extend his mercy as we strive to empower and improve the lives of unsheltered adults in Pueblo, CO, through provisions of food, shelter and navigational support services.
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11
Homeward Pikes Peak
Homeward Pikes Peak empowers individuals and families to access stable housing, increase mental health, recovery, and economic stability.
Housing & Shelter
12
New Mexico Suicide Intervention
To meet the challenge of youth suicide in santa fe and northern new mexico through lasting solutions that encourage resiliency, courage, connection and hope.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pb&J Family Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Way of North Central New. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$3,289,139Human Services$146,000Housing & Shelter$109,000Religion$94,000Education$58,000Arts & Culture$40,000Philanthropy$30,000
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.
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.
Pnm Resources FoundationNM20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Pnm Resources Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Carl C Anderson Sr and Marie Jo Anderson · Corio Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 organisation AKERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RIO GRANDE DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~60 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +72% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 263639311 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on RIO GRANDE DOWN SYNDROME NETWORK, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 60 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Akerson Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Akerson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines