· Private foundation
The Akers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF CHICAGO | $8,000 |
| CONGREGATIONOR SHALOM | $7,304 |
| CRANBROOK HORIZONS UPWARD BOUND | $3,500 |
| TEMPLE SHOLOM | $3,205 |
| UNITING VOICES CHICAGO | $3,000 |
| JEWISH UNITED FUND | $2,513 |
| ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $1,553 |
| SOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL | $1,401 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| TEMPLE SHOMER EMUNIM | $1,000 |
| ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $874 |
| UNICEF USA | $523 |
| EDUC FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY | $500 |
| BROOKFIELD ZOO | $302 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%
- ICISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +27%
- UVUNITING VOICES3× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CJCONSERV JERUSALEM MUSIC & DANCEone grant, 2024 · $4k
- NSNORTH SUBURBAN TEMPLE BETH ELone grant, 2021 · $2k
- LSLYNN SAGE CANCER RESEARCH EDNone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
56 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. 56 of the 142 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STREETWISE ↗
- Who funds UNITING VOICES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds Jewish Community Centers of Chicago ↗
- Who funds CADENA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Akers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Akers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Cadena Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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