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The Acer Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$12kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$6kArts & Culture$5kHealth$5kMembership Benefit$3kPublic Benefit$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$246k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Reid Cemetery Association$2,000
Princeton University$2,000
Next Village SF$1,200
West County Health Centers$1,000
SPUR$1,000
Ritenour Pride and Promise Fnd$1,000
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company$1,000
Francisco Park Conservancy$500
Sonoma Land Trust$500
Ecologistics$500
Landpaths$500
Individual grant recipient$300
Santa Catalina School$300
Russian Hill Neighbors$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Next Village SF: $2k → 10%North Beach Citizens: $2k → 10%Next Village SF: $1k → 10%NORTH BEACH CITIZENS: $1k → 10%Next Village SF: $600 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$41k · 16 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
13

Total granted

$41k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+1%

Still filing today

69%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • RP
    RITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +233%
  • NE
    North East Exchange Team - San Francisco
    3× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • LC
    LA CASA DE LOS NINOS
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -25%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
2
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre Corp

Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.

Arts & Culture
5
New Century Chamber Orchestra

New century chamber orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the san francisco bay area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
7
Balboa Park Conservancy

Balboa Park Conservancy (the Conservancy) was organized on November 3, 1923. The Conservancy is the City of San Diegos (the City) partner and advocated for the greater good of Balboa Park (the Park). The Conservancy collaborated with and…

8
Presidio Theatre

The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.

Philanthropy
9
Camerata Pacifica

Camerata Pacifica's mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of classical music. The Organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performance of familiar and…

Arts & Culture
10
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
11
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
12
Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%41%35–55yr12%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
12%
2,563/21,665

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
15/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Reid Cemetery Association — $3,000 · OtherReid Cemetery AssociationMargaret Jenkins Dance Company — $2,950 · OtherMargaret Jenkins Dance CompanyIndividual grant recipient — $2,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $2,000 · OtherSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANN…LA CASA DE LOS NINOS — $2,000 · OtherLA CASA DE LOS NINOSIndividual grant recipient — $1,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — $1,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL+5 more — $785 · OtherThe Trustees of Princeton University — $6,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton U…RITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationRITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FO…SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $1,950 · EducationSANTA CATALINA SCHOOLNorth East Exchange Team - San Francisco — $3,800 · Human ServicesNorth East Exch…NORTH BEACH CITIZENS — $3,000 · Human ServicesNORTH BEACH CIT…SONOMA LAND TRUST — $3,500 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND T…LandPaths — $1,000 · EnvironmentLandPathsGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $1,000 · EnvironmentGREENBELT ALL…ECOLOGISTICS INC — $500 · EnvironmentECOLOGISTICS …WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $3,000 · HealthWEST COUN…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…Marin Museum of Contemporary Art — $1,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — $500 · Arts & CultureMARGARET JENKINS DANCE STUDIO INC — $300 · Arts & CultureInterMusic SF — $200 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $50 · Arts & CultureFrancisco Park Conservancy — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND — $100 · Philanthropy
Other$15,685Education$11,950Human Services$6,800Environment$6,000Health$4,000Arts & Culture$2,050Recreation & Sports$2,000Philanthropy$1,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRITENOUR PRIDE & PROMISE FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetNorth East Exchange Team - San Francisco — $3,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH BEACH CITIZENS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFrancisco Park Conservancy — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPUR - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA PLANNING AND URBAN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $1,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Museum of Contemporary Art — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLandPaths — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENBELT ALLIANCEPEOPLE FOR OPEN SPACE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CHAMBER ORCHESTRA — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetECOLOGISTICS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARGARET JENKINS DANCE STUDIO INC — $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInterMusic SF — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEAR FUND — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDANCE PALACE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · Mary a Crocker Trust · Bothin Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 The Acer 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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