How much does The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation give?

The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $147,409 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Education (27%), Health (8%).

Who are The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Westhampton Synagogue Inc ($267k), Ramaz School ($152k), Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun ($113k).

Does The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ari and Gila Ackerman 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.

Where is The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation based?

The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation is based in NY.

The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation

The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$147k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$64k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$414kEducation$323kHealth$94kInternational$87kPhilanthropy$80kArts & Culture$65kYouth Development$39kEnvironment$18kOther$0

02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $10k
$10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$50k–250k1 grant · $64k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE	$64,000
CONGREGATION KEHILATH JESHURU	$28,154
SEPHARDIC HERITAGE ALLIANCE INC	$25,000
B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY	$6,000
JEWISH MUSEUM	$2,455
ISRAEL DEFENSE FOUNDATION	$1,800

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of its 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$900k · 15 repeat orgs$225k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$900k

$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+34%

Still filing today

47%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionPublic 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

DUKE UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $74k · revenue +41%
UJ
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
2× · 2019–2021 · $68k · revenue +27%
FO
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
2× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +274%

Funded once

NY
New York Universitygraduated
one grant, 2018 · $92k · revenue +59%
TP
The Pachamama Alliance
one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue +7%
BB
BNAI BRITH INTERNATIONAL
one grant, 2022 · $15k

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.

University of Judaism Foundation

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Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education

Sherit Isroel

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Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation

Philanthropy

Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Jerusalem Connection

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Jewish Year Abroad

To provide an education based program in israel for college age jewish young adults that will instill students with a sense of purpose, commitment & pride about

International

Jewish Life Foundation

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American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish National Fund-Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. 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

24 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. 24 of the 43 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)

24/24

Grantees still filing

18/24

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$737,992Education$171,300Philanthropy$78,400International$65,242Recreation & Sports$44,437Arts & Culture$38,744Religion$25,000

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ari and Gila Ackerman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

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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