Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $67M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 79
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Adelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 49 | $61M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $42M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $43M | 7% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $77M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 73 | $96M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 79 | $114M | 42% |
| FY2018 | 75 | $109M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $123,000,000 | 7 | 34% |
| Maccabee Task Force Foundation | $68,581,986 | 7 | 98% |
| Israeli-American Council | $61,153,000 | 7 | 86% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $28,646,741 | 4 | 11% |
| American Society for Yad Vashem Inc | $20,126,206 | 6 | 28% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $16,143,030 | 4 | 19% |
| American Friends of Ariel University Inc | $11,380,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center Inc | $10,000,000 | 2 | 44% |
| American Friends of Reichman University Inc | $6,100,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Gift of Life Marrow Registry Inc | $5,405,000 | 7 | 17% |
Show all 116 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($146M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Adelson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 102 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
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About Adelson Family Foundation
- How much does Adelson Family Foundation give?
- Adelson Family Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $66,861,072 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 79 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Adelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (41%), Philanthropy (17%), Education (14%).
- Who are Adelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Birthright Israel Foundation ($123M), Maccabee Task Force Foundation ($69M), Israeli-American Council ($61M).
- Does Adelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Adelson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Adelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago.
- Where is Adelson Family Foundation based?
- Adelson Family Foundation is based in MA.
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