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Akers Gerber 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF PITTSBURGH | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $934k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 1 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE3× · 2017–2020 · $2.5M · revenue +27%
- PCPITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST5× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- ACAUGUSTANA COLLEGE ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2021 · $250k
- CMCARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $100k
- CICARNEGIE INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
To provide a means for sharing resources and information among members, engage in joint projects, and offer a common voice on educational matters.
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.
The world affairs council of pittsburgh's mission is to convene and connect people around global issues to build a competitive, thriving, and inclusive pittsburgh.
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
By sharing resources and fostering meaningful relationships that strengthen the region's creative community, the greater pittsburgh arts council builds a more resourced, connected, and informed arts sector, empowering artists and arts…
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Croix Animal Welfare Centerinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AUGUSTANA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH CULTURAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds EAST END COOPERATIVE MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds HILL HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Assemble Inc ↗
- Who funds 412 FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SARAH HEINZ HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WQED MULTIMEDIA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION AND IRENE KAUFMANN CENT ↗
- Who funds PAULINE AUBERLE FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Grable Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Eqt Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · The Heinz Endowments · Hillman Family Foundations · Upmc Group · The Burke Family Foundation · The Burke Foundation · The Fine Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Akers Gerber Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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