· Private foundation
Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $410k
- $250k+4 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS - ACKERMAN CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES | $1,725,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $1,275,200 |
| HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $1,235,700 |
| DALLAS HOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS MUSEUM | $516,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $210,000 |
| DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE | $100,000 |
| CATCH UP & READ | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $26,120 |
| 18 DOORS | $25,000 |
| THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $15,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE | $8,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| SUPERMOON PROJECT | $5,400 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +44%
- DHDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum5× · 2019–2025 · $573k · revenue +15%
- JSJUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER5× · 2019–2023 · $253k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLASone grant, 2017 · $150k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -21%- UWUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
How this is measured
58 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. 58 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds DALLAS URBAN DEBATE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATCH UP & READ INC ↗
- Who funds LUMIN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GREAT INVESTORS BEST IDEAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESTON HOLLOW PRESBYTERIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUBLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH-MACON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MENNINGER CLINIC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds IN MY SHOES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Hillcrest Foundation · Mb and Edna Zale Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Addy Foundation · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Morton H Meyerson Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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