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David & Charlotte Ackert Family Fdn at a glance

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David & Charlotte Ackert Family Fdn

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.

$218k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$93k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$400kEducation$70kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$25k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $193k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$511k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SERICA INITIATIVE INC$93,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
NEW DRAMATISTS INC$50,000
CHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION$15,000
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $15k → 13%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $10k → 13%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $10k → 17%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$430k · 5 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue -12% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$430k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-12%
-21%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SI
    SERICA INITIATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $193k · revenue +279%
  • ND
    New DramatistsInc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $155k · revenue -12%
  • AI
    ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue -15%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
The Asia Society

The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.

International
2
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
3
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Foundation

The charitable arm of the tv academy, the academy of television arts & sciences foundation, is dedicated to preserving television while educating and inspiring future leaders.

Arts & Culture
4
The American Institute of Architects

Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.

—
5
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.

Education
6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

—
7
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
8
Via Art Fund Inc

Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.

Arts & Culture
9
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
10
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

—
11
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
12
Asian Hall of Fame

To educate the public about asian contributions to the united states and the rest of the world, promote asian artistic excellence and cross-cultural narratives, and enhance career opportunities for asians by raising public awareness of…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Serica Initiative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harlem Children's Zone 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SERICA INITIATIVE INC: $193,000 · Arts & CultureSERICA INITIATIVE INCNew DramatistsInc: $155,000 · Arts & CultureNew DramatistsIncARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $32,000 · Arts & CultureARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICAUCLA FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATI…HOUR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ALLIANCE CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherSANTA BARBARA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $5,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $20,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$380,000Education$65,000Human Services$35,000Philanthropy$30,000Other$25,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSERICA INITIATIVE INC: $193,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetNew DramatistsInc: $155,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA: $32,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHINATOWN HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKOREAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David & Charlotte Ackert Family Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David & Charlotte Ackert Family Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Archaeological Institute of America: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 11 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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