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JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON
JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,023 to it, the largest being VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $7k
- Net assets
- $316k
What Jason Ackerman Foundation Inc Dba Because of Jason does
Mission
The Jason Ackerman Foundation focuses on improving the lives of children who have faced and survived tragic circumstances through educational support and entertaining experiences.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Education assistance and scholarships to survivors of serious illnesses, tragic personal circumstances, or loss of parent to cancer or cancer related illnesses.
$31,368 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $31,368.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $157k to $218k (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
16% of JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Ron S Ackerman
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $151.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $523 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Government funding JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $65 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $65
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON?
- JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,023 to it, the largest being VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION ($5,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,023 in grants to JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON?
- VINIK FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like JASON ACKERMAN FOUNDATION INC DBA BECAUSE OF JASON find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing