How much does The Academy Place Foundation give?

The Academy Place Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $321,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Academy Place Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (32%), Human Services (18%), Youth Development (14%).

Who are The Academy Place Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Relief Services ($655k), San Diego Museum of Art ($186k), Church Health Center of Memphis Inc ($127k).

Does The Academy Place Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Academy Place Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Academy Place Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is The Academy Place Foundation based?

The Academy Place Foundation is based in MS.

The Academy Place Foundation

The Academy Place Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Academy Place 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.

$322k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$655kHuman Services$375kYouth Development$294kArts & Culture$287kHealth$144kRecreation & Sports$77kEducation$66kAnimals$64kOther$0

02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k10 grants · $45k
$10k–50k7 grants · $152k
$50k–250k2 grants · $125k

$7,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES	$75,000
BROOKS MUSEUM	$50,000
JACK MILLER CENTER	$40,000
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART	$35,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS-MEMPHIS	$35,000
PEGGY ADAMS ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE	$12,000
CHURCH HEALTH	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY OF MEMPHIS	$10,000
SEASON TO SHARE-PALM BEACH	$10,000
SALVATION ARMY-WEST PALM BEACH	$7,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS-PALM BEACH COUNTY	$7,500
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION	$5,000
SALVATION ARMY OF SAN DIEGO	$5,000
CLINCA SAN LUCAS GRACIAS	$5,000
SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY19–19, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.9M · 24 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.9M

$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+35%

Still filing today

50%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentPublic BenefitOther

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

SD
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +99%
CH
CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $127k · revenue +54%
PA
Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +39%

Funded once

TI
The Independence Fund Inc
one grant, 2020 · $32k · revenue +9%
F
FOCUS
one grant, 2023 · $10k
VF
VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue ×45

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.

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc

Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…

Health

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

Florida Chamber of Commerce Foundation Inc

Working in partnership with state business leaders to secure florida's future.

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University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment

Reef Check Foundation

Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.

Environment

Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment

University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Diego Museum of Art. 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

26 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. 26 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,538,050Arts & Culture$185,840Health$135,500Animals$58,800Education$55,500Public Benefit$34,500Youth Development$28,500

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.

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.

American Endowment FoundationOH9.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Academy Place Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Academy Place Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get 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

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

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

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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