· Private foundation
Adelman Family Foundation co Graham Adelman
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Advancing Native Missions | $10,000 |
| Blue Ridge Area Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Focus on the Family | $5,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $2,500 |
| American Center for Law and Justice | $2,500 |
| The Navigators | $1,500 |
| Mercy Chefs | $1,500 |
| Virginia Society for Human Life | $1,000 |
| Jesus Film Project | $1,000 |
| Gideons International | $1,000 |
| Havens Ministries | $1,000 |
| 40 Days for Life | $1,000 |
| The Heritage Foundation | $1,000 |
| Earlysville Volunteer Fire Company | $500 |
| Meals on Wheels America | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- BRBLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +51%
- FMFAITH MISSION HOME INC2× · 2018–2021 · $27k · revenue +41%
- SSSENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA3× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- AAAlzheimer's Associationone grant, 2018 · $7k
- SCSENIOR CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +62%
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.
Vsa represents sheriffs and their staff on criminal justice issues on a state level and provides information about emerging law enforcement issues, corrections and crime prevention to sheriff's offices and the public.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria is to inspire compassion for all living things, to provide shelter to animals in need, and to promote adoptions, animal welfare, and responsible pet ownership. Our belief that all…
Sfc virginia is a foster-based animal rescue group in fredericksburg, va. founded in june 2019 with a focus on saving dogs and cats from rural and otherwise underserved shelters in the state, we strive to provide quality medical care…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
To promote networking, exchange, and creative collaboration among scientists, scholars, artists, and professionals in the u.s. and germany consistent with the goals of the alexander von humboldt foundation.
The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Tutti Bambini. 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 49 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 43 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 BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION HOME INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES OF ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds TUTTI BAMBINI ↗
- Who funds ALBEMARLE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Alexandria Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds HALFWAY THERE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
- Who funds Haven Ministries ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SOCIETY FOR HUMAN LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds EARLYSVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Students for Life of America Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
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: Whitney and Anne Stone Foundation · The Charles Fund Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Adelman Family Foundation co Graham Adelman 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.
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.