Edward & Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation

• The foundation's grants are mainly for education, reaching schools, colleges and universities as well as civic and cultural groups with educational purposes, so work that fits this focus is the best match.
• It states that it does not accept unsolicited requests and works by invitation only, so a small charity should not send a cold application and should look for an existing route to contact it first.
• In its latest filing, 96% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had funded in earlier filings, which suggests a relationship-led pattern that makes a new approach harder to judge.
• Half of its 89 grants to organisations were $2,500 or less, and about 8 in 10 fall between $1,000 and $52,500, so a modest request sits within its typical giving, although its largest grant was $410,000.
• The filings show most grant dollars in Texas, but no geographic focus is stated, so organisations elsewhere should not treat that pattern as a rule.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Temple Emanu-El · Education
  $410,0002024 tax year
• Hockaday School · Education
  $337,1242024 tax year
• University of Texas at Dallas - Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies · Education
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Saint Mark's School of Texas · Education
  $37,5002024 tax year
• Dallas Urban Debate Alliance · Education
  $30,8582024 tax year
• Catch Up & Read · Education
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Dallas Museum of Art · Education
  $15,0002024 tax year
• Queens University of Charlotte · Education
  $8,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.