Indiana · Private foundation
The Ackerman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $810k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations The Ackerman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $760k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $730k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $474k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $375k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $337k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 46 | $393k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $363k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $381k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Indiana Inc | $295,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Oaks Academy Inc | $245,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Conner Prairie Museum Inc | $164,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana Inc | $162,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Shepherd Community Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Indiana | $130,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Indianapolis Zoological Society Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Newfields Inc | $97,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Elevate Ventures Inc | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Indianapolis First Baptist Church | $80,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 64 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Ackerman Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · Hoover Family Foundation · The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation
How this is measured
About The Ackerman Foundation
- How much does The Ackerman Foundation give?
- The Ackerman Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $810,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Ackerman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Philanthropy (17%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Ackerman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Way of Central Indiana Inc ($295k), The Oaks Academy Inc ($245k), Conner Prairie Museum Inc ($165k).
- Does The Ackerman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ackerman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Ackerman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation, Lilly Endowment Inc, The Indianapolis Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ackerman Foundation based?
- The Ackerman Foundation is based in IN.
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