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The Ackermann Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
BETH ZION CONGREGATION$450
NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION$360
EMORY UNIVERSITY$360
CHABAD OF CHAPEL HILLDURHAM$360
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$280
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $100 → 16%THE WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF GREENSBORO: $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: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

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

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7
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Hillel Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 68 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 budgetTHE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $550 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HEBREW ACADEMY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $400 over 4y, 0.1% 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 budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHWEST NC INC: $200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HERITAGE FOUNDATION OF NORTH CAROLINA: $200 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetGREENSBORO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $150 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENSBORO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 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 THE INTERACTIVE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗

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.

Tannenbaum-Sternberge…The Cemala Foundation…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Seymour & Carol L…Well-Spring Retiremen…Greensboro Jewish Fed…Amg Charitable Gift F…The Jack Levin Founda…The Jonathan & Anne S…The Anonymous FundThe Kraus Family Foun…The Hummel Family Fun…
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

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 Ackermann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ackermann Foundation. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Golda Och Academy: 0% 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, 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.

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 68 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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