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Akerson Family Foundation- Agy

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$512k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
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 FY20172024.

Education$2.1MFood & Nutrition$805kYouth Development$115kEmployment$37kHuman Services$35kHealth$25kEnvironment$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$3k
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $126k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $236k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
$9,800
Median grant
8
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$150,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$11,244
Individual grant recipient$10,002
IRIS RODRIGUEZ RIVERA CO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
KAREN VEIZAGA LOBO CO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GENESIS GABRIELA LANDAVERDE-GOMEZ CO$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRAVIS MANION FOUNDATION: $35k → 6%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $250k → 14%KIEFER FOUNDATION: $3k → 21%NATUREBRIDGE: $5k → 9%GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 6%MARIAMA SANGARE CO VIRGINIA TECH: $9k → 21%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 29%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $500k → 19%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $200k → 14%LANGLEY SCHOOL INC: $25k → 6%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE: $5k → 21%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $150k → 14%EVERY1 CAN WORK: $37k → 6%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $100k → 14%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK: $100k → 14%JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FDN: $25k → 14%BREAD FOR THE CITY: $5k → 14%HORTONS KIDS INC: $40k → 14%HORTONS KIDS INC: $25k → 14%HORTONS KIDS INC: $20k → 14%THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $500k → 14%THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $300k → 14%THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS: $50k → 14%Hortons Kids Inc: $30k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
MI
MA
OH
PA
NJ
VA
MD
TN
DC

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 34 repeat orgs$954k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
32

Total granted

$2.2M
$783k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+48%

Still filing today

6%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

  • WS
    WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
    3× · 2017–2020 · $850k · revenue -36%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $800k · revenue +39%
  • HK
    HORTON'S KIDS INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $115k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • EC
    EVERY1 CAN WORKgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $37k · revenue +65%
  • TM
    Travis Manion Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +61%

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
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
2
Capitol Hill Day School

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…

Education
3
The Peak School

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…

Education
4
Martha's Table Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

6
The Dc Central Kitchen Inc

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…

7
Freshfarm Markets

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…

Food & Nutrition
8
Little Keswick Education Corporation

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…

Education
9
The Fund for American Studies

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…

10
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

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…

Science & Tech
11
Washington International School

Our mission is to be an exemplary learning community - enriched by differences, informed through inquiry, global in reach.

Education
12
Two Rivers Public Charter School Inc

Two rivers mission: to nurture a diverse group of students to become lifelong, active participants in their own education, develop a sense of self and community, and become responsible and compassionate members of society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread for the City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joseph Robert Shaw Foundation Inc. 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 88 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.

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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

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $500,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYHORTON'S KIDS INC — $115,000 · OtherHORTON'S KIDS INC+78 more — $801,377 · Other+78 moreWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $850,000 · EducationWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS+1 more — $25,000 · EducationCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $800,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC+1 more — $5,000 · Food & NutritionTravis Manion Foundation — $35,000 · PhilanthropyJOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · HealthNATUREBRIDGE — $5,000 · EnvironmentThe Kiefer Foundation — $2,500 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$1,416,377Education$875,000Food & Nutrition$805,000Philanthropy$35,000Health$25,000Environment$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS — $850,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $800,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHORTON'S KIDS INC — $115,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetEVERY1 CAN WORK — $37,360 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTravis Manion Foundation — $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kiefer Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC
  • Who funds EVERY1 CAN WORK
  • Who funds Travis Manion Foundation
  • Who funds THE LANGLEY SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds JOSEPH ROBERT SHAW FOUNDATION INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Akerson Family Foundation- Agy 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 88 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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