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The Ackerman Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$21kHealth$19kEducation$17kYouth Development$12kHuman Services$10kFood & Nutrition$8kAnimals$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF COLUMBIA$5,000
CLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY$5,000
COLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES$5,000
GREENPORT RESCUE SQUAD INC$5,000
COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN$5,000
THE SECOND SHOW INC$5,000
HUDSON CHILDREN'S BOOK FESTIVAL$5,000
PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL$5,000
COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC$5,000
AB SHAW FIRE COMPANY INC$5,000
NAMI COLUMBIA COUNTY NY INC$3,500
FRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM PUBLIC$3,000
ANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATRE INC$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,750
HUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY22–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $5k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $3k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $3k → 9%COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN: $3k → 9%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF: $3k → 11%COLUMBIA PATHWAYS TO RECOVERY INC: $1k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5k → 11%THE SECOND SHOW INC: $5k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $3k → 11%THE SECOND SHOW INC: $3k → 11%COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $2k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 24 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
13

Total granted

$151k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
0%

Still filing today

67%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • CC
    COLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $13k · revenue +247%
  • PT
    PERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • CC
    COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $10k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HO
    HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC SQUARE HUDSON INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -97%
  • FR
    Family Resource Centers of Columbia County
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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.

1
Dutchess County Art Association Inc

To foster and perpetuate appreciation of the visual arts

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2
Hudson Valley Center for Comp Art

The Organization s mission is the development and presentation of new art exhibits and programs.

Arts & Culture
3
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
4
Schenectady Civic Players Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Hudson Lyric Opera

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Columbia County Historical Society Inc

The organization operates a historical society and three museums as well as a library for historical research.

Arts & Culture
7
The Hudson Players Guild Inc

Theater productions and education

—
8
Denizen Theatre Inc

To highlight the power of storytelling, by sharing stories that foster positive social change and help raise empathy in the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Ritz Theater Newburgh Inc

The Ritz Theater is the last remaining historic theater in the City of Newburgh. Neglect and fire have claimed the others. Our goals for the restoration of the Ritz are to create a venue for live performances, provide employment training…

Arts & Culture
10
Rosendale Theatre Collective Inc

To preserving the historic Rosendale Theatre and enhancing the cultural life and economic vitality of Rosendale and Ulster County through film, the performing arts, and educational programming.

Arts & Culture
11
Northern York County Historical & Preservation Society
—
12
The Catskill Recreation Center Inc
Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hudson Opera House Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
17/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLAVERACK FREE LIBRARY: $9,700 · OtherCLAVERACK FREE LIBRARYCOLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIES: $9,500 · OtherCOLUMBIA COUNTY LIBRARIESIndividual grant recipient: $7,550 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLUCKY REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $6,800 · OtherLUCKY REHABILITATION CENTER INCMENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS GALLERY: $6,500 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS GALLERYHUDSON CHILDRENS BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $5,000 · OtherHUDSON CHILDRENS BOOK FESTIVAL INCFAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF COLUMBIA: $5,000 · OtherFAMILY RESOURCE CENTERS OF COLUMBIAFRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM PUBLIC: $4,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE CHATHAM PUBLICCOLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 · OtherAB SHAW FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 · OtherAB SHAW FIRE COMPANY INCFRIENDS OF COPAKE GRANGE 935: $2,900 · Other+15 more: $16,800 · Other+15 moreCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA COUNTY RE…COLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA CHILDREN'…THE SECOND SHOW INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE SECOND SHOW IN…Family Resource Centers of Columbia County: $2,500 · Human ServicesFamily Resource Ce…COLUMBIA PATHWAYS TO RECOVERY INC: $1,250 · Human ServicesANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC: $6,600 · Arts & CultureANCRAM OPERA HOU…PS 21 INC: $4,500 · Arts & CulturePS 21 INCFASNY Museum of Firefighting: $4,000 · Arts & CultureFASNY Museum of …ROVING ACTORS REPERTORY ENSEMBLE INC: $3,800 · Arts & CultureROVING ACTORS RE…VALATIE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureVALATIE COMMUNIT…HUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHUDSON OPERA HOU…NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBEAUTIFUL RACKET INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,450 · Arts & CulturePERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPERFECT TE…FRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $8,300 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF…OPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $800 · Youth DevelopmentHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding: $7,500 · HealthHigh & Mi…GREENPORT RESCUE SQUAD INC: $5,000 · HealthGREENPORT…NAMI COLUMBIA COUNTY NY INC: $3,500 · HealthNAMI COLU…UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 · HealthUPPER HUD…+1 more: $500 · HealthHUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $7,000 · EducationKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,100 · EducationROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $3,000 · EducationANIMALKIND INC: $7,100 · Animals
Other$83,250Human Services$33,250Arts & Culture$29,850Youth Development$19,100Health$17,500Education$13,100Animals$7,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOLUMBIA COUNTY RECOVERY KITCHEN INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPERFECT TEN AFTER SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON YOUTH INC: $8,300 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHigh & Mighty Therapeutic Riding: $7,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SECOND SHOW INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetANIMALKIND INC: $7,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUDSON AREA ASSOCIATION LIBRARY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetANCRAM OPERA HOUSE THEATER INC: $6,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAB SHAW FIRE COMPANY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetPS 21 INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFASNY Museum of Firefighting: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $3,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVALATIE COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF COPAKE GRANGE 935: $2,900 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHUDSON OPERA HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVALATIE FREE LIBRARY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA PATHWAYS TO RECOVERY INC: $1,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGERMANTOWN LIBRARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUTIFUL RACKET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAMPHILL HUDSON INC: $900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION UNITE NEW YORK INC: $800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetART SCHOOL OF COLUMBIA COUNTY INC: $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGREENE COUNTY COUNCIL ON THE ARTS: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESTINY'S RIDE THERAPEUTIC PROGRAM: $500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSCHENECTADY DISC GOLF CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Hrbt FoundationBank of Greene County…Berkshire Taconic Com…Rheinstrom Hill Commu…The Alexander and Mar…Eutopia FoundationThe Jm Kaplan Fund IncT Backer Fund IncThe Reinhart Foundati…Childrens Foundation …Ullman Family Foundat…Evelyn Bordewick Char…
Hrbt FoundationNY51.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ackerman Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ackerman Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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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    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 54 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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