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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.

$67M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$11M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$230MPhilanthropy$99MEducation$78MHuman Services$62MReligion$50MHealth$23MArts & Culture$7.7MYouth Development$5.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $348k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+21 grants · $65M
$100,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS$1,000,000
FRIENDS OF IR DAVID$1,000,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$1,000,000
GIFT OF LIFE BONE MARROW FOUNDATION$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $36k → 6%CAMP KESEM: $3k → 14%YEDIDIM USA: $311k → 13%ATI FOUNDATION: $20k → 7%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $36k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $35k → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $30k → 6%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $25k → 8%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $18k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $18k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $18k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $18k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $15k → 13%FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF LV: $15k → 13%SOUTHERN NEVADA SENIOR LAW PROGRAM: $10k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$519M · 89 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

89
76

Total granted

$519M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

65%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IC
    ISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $61M · revenue +11% · 86% of their budget
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    4× · 2018–2021 · $29M · revenue +41%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    4× · 2018–2021 · $16M · revenue +206%

Funded once

  • ID
    IR DAVID FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1.4M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH
    one grant, 2018 · $1.3M
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
Sherit Isroel
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3
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Even Yisroel Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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6
The Jerusalem Connection
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7
Voices United for Israel

Educational information regarding Israel and the Middle East.

International
8
Friends of Institute for Zionist

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…

International
9
American Friends of Ish El Rayahu

To promote, benefit, and support Jewish religious, charitable & educational activities in Israel and the USA.

Religion
10
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
12
American Friends of Zvi Latzadik Dba Breslov Research Institute Jerusalem

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.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; 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.
04the grantee network

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/117
Grantees still filing
74/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Maccabee Task Force Foundation: $68,581,986 · OtherMaccabee Task Force FoundationADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $37,342,630 · OtherADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTEJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL N AMERICAN COUNCIL: $36,800,000 · OtherJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL N AMERICAN COUNCILARIEL UNIVERSITY: $19,143,400 · OtherARIEL UNIVERSITYHASHOMER HACHADASH: $13,190,504 · OtherHASHOMER HACHADASHAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ARIEL UNIVERSITY INC: $11,380,000 · Other+95 more: $54,012,587 · Other+95 moreBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $123,000,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $28,646,741 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCESAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16,143,030 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM+26 more: $18,048,853 · International+26 moreISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $61,153,000 · Human ServicesISRAELI-AMER…+7 more: $607,750 · Human ServicesAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $20,126,206 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $4,396,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $813,000 · Arts & CultureCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $10,350,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ZION INC: $5,334,552 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,898,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc: $2,517,999 · PhilanthropyFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyVEGAS STRONG FUND INC: $1,000,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $455,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5,405,000 · HealthCHELSEA JEWISH NURSING HOME INC: $1,050,000 · Health+12 more: $875,800 · HealthTHE TIKVAH FUND: $3,000,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,800,000 · EducationJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $1,250,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $800,000 · EducationALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $740,000 · EducationGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $691,666 · EducationGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $550,000 · Education+8 more: $729,000 · Education
Other$240,451,107International$185,838,624Human Services$61,760,750Arts & Culture$25,335,206Philanthropy$25,055,551Health$17,330,800Education$9,560,666

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $123,000,000 over 7y, 34% of budgetMaccabee Task Force Foundation: $68,581,986 over 7y, 98% of budgetISRAELI-AMERICAN COUNCIL: $61,153,000 over 7y, 86% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $28,646,741 over 4y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $20,126,206 over 6y, 28% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $16,143,030 over 4y, 19% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $10,350,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $6,100,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $5,405,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF ZION INC: $5,334,552 over 6y, 77% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $4,396,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF LAS VEGAS SIGESMUND CENTER: $4,303,370 over 7y, 21% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $3,898,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,350,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE TIKVAH FUND: $3,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL SCOUTS INC: $2,705,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,675,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $2,517,999 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $1,800,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR JEWISH COMMUNITY STUDIES: $1,750,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $1,530,000 over 5y, 8.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF THE CIS INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJEWISH NEWS SERVICE INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 81% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $1,141,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLETTER OF THE LAW INC: $1,075,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetCHELSEA JEWISH NURSING HOME INC: $1,050,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF IR DAVID INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetVEGAS STRONG FUND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $800,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $740,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetGIDEON HAUSNER JEWISH DAY SCHOOL: $691,666 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSTUDENTS SUPPORTING ISRAEL: $678,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetGATEWAYS ACCESS TO JEWISH EDUCATION INC: $550,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $500,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetRESEARCH - EVAL - PROMOTING ORG RESPON & TRANSPARENCY - REPORT - INC: $470,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetCLARK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $402,670 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetYEDIDIM USA INC: $310,750 over 1y, 23% of budgetFRIENDS OF ISRAEL INITIATIVE INC: $300,000 over 2y, 71% of budgetCITYARTS INC: $260,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LUBAVITCH: $255,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $255,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $250,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetKadima Hebrew Academy: $250,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFEELING GOOD FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MARCH OF THE LIVING I: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $236,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundJewish Federation of …Greater Miami Jewish …Jewish Community Fede…The Milstein Family F…The Koum Family Found…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Jewish Community Foun…Ruderman Family Found…The Irving I Moskowit…
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA43.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adelson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adelson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Adelson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Adelson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 190 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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