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Adelson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $348k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+21 grants · $65M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY | $10,850,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $9,000,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SOURASKY TEL AVIV MEDICAL CENTER | $5,666,667 |
| MACCABEE TASK FORCE FOUNDATION | $5,601,557 |
| JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL N AMERICAN COUNCIL | $5,500,000 |
| ISRAELI AMERICAN COUNCIL | $5,000,000 |
| ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE | $4,900,000 |
| HASHOMER HACHADASH | $4,000,000 |
| PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC | $3,830,000 |
| THE TIKVAH FUND | $3,000,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH | $1,796,000 |
| FRIENDS OF IR DAVID | $1,000,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS | $1,000,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE BONE MARROW FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $608k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
89 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 14 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- ICISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL7× · 2018–2024 · $61M · revenue +11% · 86% of their budget
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES4× · 2018–2021 · $29M · revenue +41%- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM4× · 2018–2021 · $16M · revenue +206%
Funded once
- IDIR DAVID FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $3.3M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.4M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPHone grant, 2018 · $1.3M
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.
Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.
The organization seeks to reinforce the foundations of israel as a jewish and democratic state. it acts to promote programs to educate the israeli public on the importance of both values and to demonstrate how each contributes to and…
To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.
To foster jewish religious education and disseminate the teachings of rabbi nachman of breslov through publication and distribution of books and cds, as well as seminars, lectures and study groups.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Champions of Discovery. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
117 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. 117 of the 190 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 BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maccabee Task Force Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ZION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TIKVAH FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Milstein Family Foundation · The Koum Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Ruderman Family Foundation · The Irving I Moskowitz 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 Adelson Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Chelsea Jewish Nursing Home Inc — 31% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Zamir Chorale of Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Gateways Access to Jewish Education Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life 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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