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Akg Global Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$10,000
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
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.

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
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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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 Akg Global Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Akg Global Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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