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Akg Global Foundation

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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Science & Tech$210kEducation$98kArts & Culture$80kAnimals$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$959k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA FE INSTITUTE$20,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$10,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$10,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$5,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$5,000
CARNEGIE HALL$3,100
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$2,500
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 10%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $13k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $3k → 14%THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL: $5k → 17%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO: $50k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $30k → 19%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $11k → 10%CARNEGIE HALL: $3k → 17%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $30k → 12%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10k → 10%CARNEGIE HALL: $3k → 17%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $3k → 10%CARNEGIE HALL: $3k → 17%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $3k → 10%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $6k → 10%SANTA FE INSTITUTE: $20k → 12%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $6k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $5k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $3k → 10%LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $5k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$290k · 7 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$290k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

86%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechAnimalsOther

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

  • SANTA FE INSTITUTE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $140k · revenue +320%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    5× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +35%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • TL
    THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -42%

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.

1
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
4
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
5
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
6
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc

The mission of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is to foster and maintain an organization dedicated to making music consonant with the highest aspirations of the musical art, creating performances and providing educational and training…

Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
11
Sonoma Botanical Garden
12
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is Valley Humane SocietyInc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA FE INSTITUTE — $140,000 · Science & TechSANTA FE INSTITUTECALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $40,308 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCESSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $15,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $15,500 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $9,100 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATIONUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO — $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICA…INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY — $30,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDYUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $3,100 · EducationValley Humane SocietyInc — $1,500 · Animals
Science & Tech$140,000Arts & Culture$120,408Other$110,000Education$18,100Animals$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA FE INSTITUTE — $140,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $40,308 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $9,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $3,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley Humane SocietyInc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Akg Global 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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