· Private foundation
Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $342k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $139,200 |
| SEATTLE ACADEMY | $52,500 |
| HOTCHKISS ENDOWMENT FUND | $50,000 |
| THE UCLA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $50,000 |
| HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE SEATTLE ACQUARIUM SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE | $15,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $11,200 |
| RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - SEATTLE FESTIVAL OF TREES | $4,200 |
| THE REAGAN RANCH CENTER - YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME | $2,000 |
| JOHN WAYNE BIRTHPLACE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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 +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 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; $32k 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
- NYNew York University2× · 2023–2024 · $272k · revenue +11%
- TSTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +20%
- ESEPIPHANY SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +24%
Funded once
CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +12%- CCHILDHAVENone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -52%
- IFImpactful Fundgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +922% · 26% of their budget
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.
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.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
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…
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beta Phi Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Impactful Fund ↗
- Who funds LAKESIDE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONE ROOF ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FILM FORUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds Beta Phi Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP KOREY ↗
- Who funds Seattle Garden Club Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS 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: Seattle Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Grousemont Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
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.