Illinois · Private foundation
The Akers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $302
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $178k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Akers Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $28k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $22k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $26k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $18k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $21k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $20k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $15k | 70% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $15k | 76% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $28,176 | 9 | 0% |
| Congregation or Shalom of Lake County | $21,807 | 6 | n/a |
| Rochelle Zell Jewish High School | $11,280 | 7 | 0% |
| Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc | $7,679 | 5 | 0% |
| Temple Sholom of Chicago | $6,840 | 3 | n/a |
| North Suburban Synagogue Beth El | $6,520 | 2 | n/a |
| Streetwise | $5,310 | 5 | 0% |
| Uniting Voices | $4,600 | 3 | 0% |
| Judaism Alive Dba Jewish Rock Radio | $1,890 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Community Centers of Chicago | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 75 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Akers 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: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Hochberg Family Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About The Akers Foundation
- How much does The Akers Foundation give?
- The Akers Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $37,659 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Akers Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (31%), Education (25%), Philanthropy (23%).
- Who are The Akers Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($28k), Congregation or Shalom of Lake County ($22k), Rochelle Zell Jewish High School ($11k).
- Does The Akers Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Akers Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Akers Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is The Akers Foundation based?
- The Akers Foundation is based in IL.
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