· Private foundation
Jerome & Barbara Ackerman Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of Jerome & Barbara Ackerman Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Jerome & Barbara Ackerman Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $6k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK | $3,948 |
| HADASSAH | $575 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $500 |
| BOYS TOWN | $400 |
| GREAT NECK ESTATE PBA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $198 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $100 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100 |
| ST JOSEPHS | $95 |
| GREAT NECK VIGILAN FIRE CO | $50 |
| AIPCA | $36 |
| JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS | $36 |
| ST JUDES | $35 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $18 |
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 (FY17–18, $425) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +145% since the first grant, against +64% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2017, 2 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TITEMPLE ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK5× · 2019–2023 · $20k
- VCVARIOUS CHARITIES4× · 2019–2022 · $16k
- TBTEMPLE BETH ISRAEL OF GREAT NECK2× · 2017–2018 · $5k
Funded once
- CRCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +160%
The Metropolitan Opera Guild Incone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue -98%- DRDAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCHone grant, 2018 · $417
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Draper's engineers design, develop and deploy advanced technology solutions for the world's most difficult and important problems.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
American advertising federation, inc. was established to provide leadership and cultivate, promote, and disseminate knowledge and information on issues involving and affecting advertising.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
The ama foundation brings together physicians and communities to improve our nation's health.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 23 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 BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds VIGILANT ENGINE HOOK & LADDER CO INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jerome & Barbara Ackerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerome & Barbara Ackerman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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