New York · 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.
- $805k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 27
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Adelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 23 | $802k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.1M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $999k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $700k | 42% |
| FY2017 | 27 | $790k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anti-Defamation League | $3,100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Hastings Center Inc | $2,050,000 | 8 | 11% |
| The Cahn Fellows Programs | $855,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Grassroots Business Partners Inc | $450,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $365,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $352,575 | 8 | 0% |
| Mr C S Baseball Foundation | $50,000 | 2 | 36% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $35,163 | 6 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $32,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($530k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Adelson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Haupt Family Foundation · Fjc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Adelson Family Foundation
- How much does Adelson Family Foundation give?
- Adelson Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $804,628 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Adelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (38%), Social Science (25%), Education (17%).
- Who are Adelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Anti-Defamation League ($3.1M), The Hastings Center Inc ($2.0M), The Cahn Fellows Programs ($855k).
- Does Adelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% 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 Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Adelson Family Foundation based?
- Adelson Family Foundation is based in NY.
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