· Private foundation
The Ackerman Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| CLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL | $2,500 |
| PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| LUCKY REHABILITATION CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE SECOND SHOW INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC | $2,500 |
| HIGH & MIGHTY THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $2,500 |
| ANIMALKIND | $2,300 |
| ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATRE INC | $2,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS GALLERY | $2,000 |
| FASNY MUSEUM OF FIREFIGHTING | $2,000 |
| HUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $18k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- CCCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $8k · revenue +108%
- FOFRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +59%
- PTPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE HUDSON INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -97%
- FRFamily Resource Centers of Columbia Countyone grant, 2023 · $3k
- HOHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
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 Organization s mission is the development and presentation of new art exhibits and programs.
Theater productions and education
The Hudson Lyric Opera is an organization dedicated to providing culturalopportunities for talented singers and musicians in the Hudson Valleyregion that have been classically or formally trained who, otherwise, wouldnot be able to devote…
To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts
The Hudson Cultural Alliance is an all-volunteer,nonprofit that is spearheading the vision of an arts center to attract visitors andbusinesses, create opportunities for community engagement, and increase the regions overall quality of…
To enrich the lives of residents, artists, and businesses in utica's new york arts district by fostering creativity, inspiring community engagement, driving technological innovation, and celebrating a sustainable cultural vibrancy.
To highlight the power of storytelling, by sharing stories that foster positive social change and help raise empathy in the world.
To foster, promote and nurture the natural talents of those citizens interested in play production, stagecraft and arts management; to stimulate appreciation and participation in suporting high quality theatrical prodcutions for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Opera House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ps 21 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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 37 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 High & Mighty Therapeutic Riding ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMALKIND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds PS 21 INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds Family Resource Centers of Columbia County ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROVING ACTORS REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds FASNY Museum of Firefighting ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF COPAKE GRANGE 935 ↗
- Who funds KINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VALATIE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA PATHWAYS TO RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUTIFUL RACKET INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds GREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY DISC GOLF CLUB INC ↗
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: Hrbt Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Eutopia Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · The Reinhart Foundation · Childrens Foundation of Columbia County Inc · Ullman Family Foundation · Evelyn Bordewick Charitable 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 The Ackerman Foundation Inc 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Ackerman Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Ackerman Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.