· Private foundation
M a & G a Ackerman Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $697k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES | $100,000 |
| ST JOHN EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE DIVINE | $100,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF ILLINOIS | $90,000 |
| BISHOP ANDERSON FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| NEW YORK FOUNDLING HOSPITAL | $60,000 |
| ASCENSION ILLINOIS ALEXIAN BROS | $50,000 |
| CABRINI IMMIGRANT SERVICES NYC | $50,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $45,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF METROPOLITAN | $40,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY MINISTRIES | $40,000 |
| LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN HEALTH CENTER | $40,000 |
| CHICAGO LIGHTS | $35,000 |
| XAVIER MISSION | $35,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 48 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M a & G a Ackerman Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M a & G a Ackerman Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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