· Private foundation
M a & G a Ackerman Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $697k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $100,000 |
| ST JOHN EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS | $90,000 |
| BISHOP ANDERSON FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CABRINI IMMIGRANT SERVICES NYC | $50,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS ALEXIAN BROS | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $45,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN | $40,000 |
| LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| TRINITY COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC | $35,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTS | $35,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $690k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS3× · 2023–2025 · $305k · revenue +20%
- NYNEW YORK FOUNDLING3× · 2023–2025 · $170k · revenue +12%
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $147k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- ABAlexian Brothers Bonaventure Houseone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -7%
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF METROone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ACARCHCARE COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -15%
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.
The hospital is a catholic health care organization sponsored by the sisters of st. casimir. by our commitment to witness to the healing mission of jesus, we contribute to healthy communities and promote quality health care to all with…
To provide health care and services to those in need; to minimize human suffering; to assist people to wholeness and to nurture an awareness of their relationship with god.
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The little sisters of the poor operate st. mary's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france in…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
MISSION - ST. JUDE HOUSE, Inc. (St. Jude House) IS a family violence prevention center and shelter; our mission is TO CELEBRATE LIFE AND SERVE WITH JOY. Vision - St. Jude House is a catalyst in Northwest Indiana for the prevention,…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicagoland Methodist Senior Services and the most unlike its peers is Holy Family Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO LIGHTS ↗
- Who funds XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds Alexian Brothers Bonaventure House ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING LAKEFRONT ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds Bethany House of Hospitality ↗
- Who funds ARCHCARE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds CHICAGOLAND METHODIST SENIOR SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COMMUNITY CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds St Bernard Hospital ↗
- Who funds TALLER DE JOSE ↗
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: Helen V Brach Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · WP & HB White Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Washington Square Health Foundation · The a Montgomery Ward Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Greater Chicago Food Depository · Uw Harry S Black & Allon Fuller · The Rhoades 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 M a & G a Ackerman Memorial Fund 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.
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.