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Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation at a glance

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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.

$438k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$139k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.2MHealth$335kPhilanthropy$150kEnvironment$57kHuman Services$52kArts & Culture$21kReligion$21kHousing & Shelter$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $77k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $342k
$15,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$139,200
SEATTLE ACADEMY$52,500
HOTCHKISS ENDOWMENT FUND$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA$50,000
THE UCLA FOUNDATION$50,000
HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL$25,000
THE SEATTLE ACQUARIUM SOCIETY$25,000
EPIPHANY PARISH OF SEATTLE$15,500
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$11,200
GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA$5,000
RED CROSS$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RED CROSS: $5k → 14%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
AZ
DC
AL
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$239k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
22

Total granted

$1.2M
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+2%

Still filing today

46%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NY
    New York University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $272k · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +20%
  • ES
    EPIPHANY SCHOOL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -52%
  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • IF
    Impactful Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +922% · 26% of their budget
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
3
The George Washington University

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…

Education
4
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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5
University Cooperative School

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.

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6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
8
Augustana College

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…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
11
Siff

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.

Youth Development
12
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Providence Hospice of Seattle Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA FOUNDATION: $400,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONNew York University: $272,200 · EducationNew York UniversityCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+3 more: $46,000 · Education+3 moreHOTCHKISS ENDOWMENT FUND: $150,000 · OtherHOTCHKISS ENDOWMENT FUNDUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: $150,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ARIZONASEATTLE ACADEMY: $107,500 · OtherSEATTLE ACADEMYBOSTON COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUND: $100,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT FUNDCHILDHAVEN: $50,000 · OtherCHILDHAVENUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $31,180 · Other+16 more: $76,222 · Other+16 moreGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $268,000 · HealthGLOBAL LYME ALLI…ST JUDE HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $55,000 · AnimalsA LITTLE RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsImpactful Fund: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $4,000 · Arts & CultureONE ROOF: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Human Services
Education$818,200Other$664,902Health$278,000Animals$65,000Arts & Culture$44,000Housing & Shelter$15,000Human Services$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $272,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LYME ALLIANCE INC: $268,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEPIPHANY SCHOOL: $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESIDE SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetImpactful Fund: $20,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetONE ROOF: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE HOSPITAL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA LITTLE RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST FILM FORUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE ARTS AND LECTURES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAISMITH MEMORIAL BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBeta Phi Educational Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP KOREY: $1,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Garden Club Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Seattle FoundationGs Donor Advised Phil…Grousemont FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The US Charitable Gif…Mightycause Charitabl…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Seattle FoundationWA18.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ginger and Barry Ackerley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 42 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home