· Private foundation
Bill Jennie & Harry Ackerman Foundation Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $196k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRO BONO LEAGAL SERVICES INC | $196,485 |
| JCC HOUSING CORP | $35,000 |
| JEWISH ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN INC | $15,000 |
| THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC | $15,000 |
| CHARLESTON JEWISH FEDERATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER CHARLE | $8,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| CHARLESTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,000 |
| YASCHIK-ARNOLD JEWISH STUDIES CENTER | $2,500 |
| BNAI BRITH INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| HILLEL INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PBPRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +90% · 33% of their budget
- JHJCC HOUSING CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue +52%
- TCTHE CHARIS CIRCLE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- COCHABAD OF CHARLESTON INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- YOYMCA OF GREATER CHARLESTONone grant, 2020 · $2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The jewish community center of charleston is a nonprofit for the purpose of providing educational, recreational, social and cultural activities for the jewish community in the charleston area.
The Holocaust Center for Humanity teaches the lessons of the Holocaust, inspiring students of all ages to confront bigotry and indifference, promote human dignity, and take action.
To educate jewish students based on chabad chassidic philosophy, advance their understanding of jewish ideas and foster their jewishness.
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
Founded in 2017, the Jewish Center for Justice (JCJ) is a distinguished social justice, education, and leadership development platform that meets each individual where they are in their journey to inspire change. JCJ's mission is to…
Charged with raising, collecting and distributing funds, the federation seeks to "advance the welfare of the total jewish community". the federation strongly supports israel and world jewry. additionally, the organization strives to…
To empower and inspire north carolina's jewish college students to pursue their own jewish journeys by creating strong communities and transformative experiences.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
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The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The Organization operates an religious outreach center to promote and understand Judaism and the laws of Kosher.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charleston Jewish Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American College of the Building Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds PRO BONO LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Jewish Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds JCC HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHARIS CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Services of Greater Charleston Inc ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Charleston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHABAD OF CHARLESTON INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds WINGS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF THE BUILDING ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEBREW BENEVOLENT SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Sherman Family Charitable Trust · Trident United Way · The Joanna Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization Bill Jennie & Harry Ackerman Foundation Trust 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.
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.
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