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The Ackermann Foundation

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.

$69k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$156kPhilanthropy$121kEducation$78kCivil Rights$15kArts & Culture$12kHealth$7kHuman Services$3kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
$180
Median grant
12
States reached
$85k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE$32,523
GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION$10,000
B'NAI SHALOM DAY SCHOOL$7,000
CHABAD OF GREENSBORO$5,400
GOLDA OCH ACADEMY$3,500
SCHECHTER BOSTON DAY SCHOOL$2,000
HADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC$1,500
JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREENSBORO$1,000
CAROLINA THEATRE$550
JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND$540
Individual grant recipient$450
EMORY UNIVERSITY$360
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION$360
CHABAD OF CHAPEL HILLDURHAM$360
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$280
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $100 → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $100 → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50 → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50 → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50 → 16%BACKPACK BEGINNINGS: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $150 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER: $50 → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$279k · 56 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
7

Total granted

$279k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+123%

Still filing today

57%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BS
    B'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +26%
  • GO
    Golda Och Academy
    8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +26%
  • JE
    JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROTARY CAROUSEL LLC
    one grant, 2018 · $500
  • TR
    THE ROTARY CLUB OF GREENSBORO
    one grant, 2020 · $500
  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA HOLOCAUST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $360 · revenue +123%

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
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
6
Durham-Chapel Hill Jewish Federation

We provide engaging opportunities that deepen jewish connections, knowledge and relations to israel; services for helping those in need; programs that foster healthy living; and pathways for chartiable giving.

7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
8
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
11
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

12
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Hillel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsJewish Community Organizati…Local Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesDomestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%5%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr12%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%6%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr14%2%20–35yr12%55%35–55yr12%24%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
15%
7,957/53,138

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

38 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. 38 of the 68 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
24/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BETH DAVID SYNAGOGUE — $123,593 · OtherBETH DAVID SYNAGOGUEB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC — $42,500 · OtherB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INCCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENSBORO INC — $27,450 · OtherCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENSBORO INCHADASSAH THE WOMEN'S ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA INC — $12,700 · Other+36 more — $35,366 · Other+36 moreGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $98,680 · PhilanthropyGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATIONJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREENSBORO — $12,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREENSBOROCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GR…Golda Och Academy — $18,040 · EducationEmory University — $2,690 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $780 · Education+3 more — $1,450 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $3,520 · Arts & CultureUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC — $2,250 · Arts & CultureEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $1,800 · Arts & CultureGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $900 · Arts & CultureTRIAD STAGE INC — $600 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $380 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $900 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $900 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $450 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $400 · HealthANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,470 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC — $500 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA HOLOCAUST FOUNDATION — $360 · Civil RightsTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $550 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $400 · Human ServicesWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc — $400 · Human ServicesBACKPACK BEGINNINGS — $300 · Human Services
Other$241,609Philanthropy$120,680Education$22,960Arts & Culture$9,450Health$3,150Civil Rights$2,330Human Services$1,650

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION — $98,680 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetB'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC — $42,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGolda Och Academy — $18,040 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREENSBORO — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC — $4,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION — $3,520 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University — $2,690 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC — $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Arc of Greensboro Inc — $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $1,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION — $1,620 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $1,470 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $780 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $720 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRIAD STAGE INC — $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger — $550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC — $550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY INC — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER — $400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRIAD HEALTH PROJECT — $350 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBACKPACK BEGINNINGS — $300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOUT OF THE GARDEN PROJECT — $300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA — $200 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC — $200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC — $150 over 3y, 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.

  • Who funds GREENSBORO JEWISH FEDERATION
  • Who funds B'NAI SHALOM SYNAGOGUE INC
  • Who funds Golda Och Academy
  • Who funds JEWISH FOUNDATION OF GREENSBORO
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC
  • Who funds JEWISH EDUCATIONAL LOAN FUND INC
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Emory University
  • Who funds UNITED ARTS COUNCIL OF GREENSBORO INC
  • Who funds The Arc of Greensboro Inc
  • Who funds EASTERN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HILLEL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
  • Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
  • Who funds TRIAD STAGE INC
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
  • Who funds THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds AMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY 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.

Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation IncNC32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Seymour & Carol Levin Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · Greensboro Jewish Federation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Jack Levin Foundation Inc · The Jonathan & Anne Smith Family Foundation Inc · The Anonymous Fund · The Kraus Family Foundation Co Emanuel V Dinatale · The Hummel Family Fund 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 Ackermann Foundation 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy0% 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
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 68 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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