How much does The Ammerman Foundation give?

The Ammerman Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $289,451 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Ammerman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Education (15%), Religion (12%).

Who are The Ammerman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union ($355k), Health Care for the Homeless Inc ($205k), The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ($199k).

Does The Ammerman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ammerman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Ammerman Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, Collier Community Foundation Inc, West Bay Community Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Ammerman Foundation based?

The Ammerman Foundation is based in FL.

The Ammerman Foundation

The Ammerman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ammerman 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.

$289k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$52k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$641kEducation$276kReligion$213kHousing & Shelter$207kHuman Services$137kPhilanthropy$75kPublic Benefit$48kCivil Rights$37kOther$0

02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $52k
$10k–50k10 grants · $186k
$50k–250k1 grant · $52k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOUNT VERNON	$52,400
BONITA WONDER GARDENS INC	$35,500
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM	$35,000
CINCINNATI CENTER FOR EOSINOPHILIC DISORDERS - CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSPITA	$35,000
EMPTY BOWLS NAPLES INC	$20,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY	$10,000
4 MONTGOMERYS KIDS INC	$10,000
LISTEN FIRST PROJECT	$10,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NAPLES	$10,000
CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA	$10,000
NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER	$10,000
TEMPLE SINAI	$7,412
CONGREGATION B'NAI TZEDEK	$5,470
SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER	$5,000
TEMPLE NER TAMID	$5,000

02The need

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 (FY21–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 33 repeat orgs$216k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.8M

$164k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%

+25%

Still filing today

64%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther

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

THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION
7× · 2019–2025 · $355k · revenue +24%
HC
HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $205k · revenue +16%
TU
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
9× · 2017–2025 · $199k · revenue +25%

Funded once

UV
UM - VETERANS IN TRANSITION FUND
one grant, 2017 · $25k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $22k
UV
UMD - VETERANS IN TRANSITION FUND
one grant, 2018 · $20k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Child Welfare League of America

Child welfare league of america engages its network of public and private agencies and partners to advance policies, best practices, and collaborative strategies that result in better outcomes for vulnerable children, youth, and families.

Human Services

Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum

Miami children's museum is a non-profit educational institution, which meets the needs of all children in our multicultural community. visitors of all ages are encouraged to play together, learn, imagine, and create. the museum offers…

Arts & Culture

Conservation Society of California

Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.

Animals

Wonders Early Learning Extended Day

To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.

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Global Citizens Public Charter School

Global citizens school's mission is to inspire and prepare the next generation or global citizens. we will do this by supporting students, ages 3-11, to reach their full academic and leadership potential in a nurturing learning…

—

Children's Hospital

Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…

Health

Florida Alliance of Children's Councils & Trusts Inc

To promote policies that build effective primary prevention and early intervention systems of support for florida's children and families by engaging and enhancing the collective strengths of the individual children's services councils of…

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National Children Museum

To inspire children to care about and change the world. National Children's Museum (NCM) is a next generation institution that sparks curiosity and ignites creativity for children under 12 by fostering critical competencies in S.T.E.A.M.…

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Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education

International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International

Children's Museum of Oak Park

To spark curiosity and creativity in all young children through positive, play-based learning experiences.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tail Wags & Book Bags. 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 62 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

29/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$895,592Arts & Culture$792,196Education$201,500Public Benefit$78,256Philanthropy$61,000Animals$26,000International$24,850

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC21.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · West Bay Community Charitable Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Ammerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ammerman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home