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.

Adelson Family Foundation

Adelson Family Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$3.1MSocial Science$2.0MEducation$1.4MCommunity Improvement$450kPhilanthropy$378kArts & Culture$100kHealth$81kInternational$62kOther$0

02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $34k
$10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$50k–250k3 grants · $355k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$300,000
CAHN FELLOWS PROGRAMS CORPORATION	$205,000
HASTINGS CENTER	$100,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK	$50,300
MR C'S BASEBALL FOUNDATION	$25,000
AMERICAN ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION	$25,000
PENN HILLEL	$18,000
GOVERN FOR AMERICA	$15,000
CAROLYN DORMAN DANCE	$12,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC	$10,163
LINK EDUCATION PARTNERS	$10,000
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS	$5,000
RAMAH BERKSHIRES	$3,708
NEW YORKERS AGAINST GUN VIOLENCE	$3,622
HIAS	$3,600

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–21, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.0M · 32 repeat orgs$231k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$8.0M

$176k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+44%

Still filing today

78%

69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

AL
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
8× · 2017–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +78%
TH
The Hastings Center Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +61%
TC
THE CAHN FELLOWS PROGRAMS
4× · 2021–2024 · $855k · revenue +186%

Funded once

HR
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -80%
JH
JEWISH HOME LIFECARETHE NEW JEWISH HOME
one grant, 2017 · $25k
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SO CAL
one grant, 2020 · $20k

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.

Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture

The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Council On Foreign Relations Inc

The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…

International

Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights

Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mr C S Baseball Foundation. 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

58 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. 58 of the 77 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/58

Grantees still filing

44/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$3,105,000Other$2,807,359Education$1,220,000International$516,741Philanthropy$386,758Arts & Culture$87,870Health$75,163

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

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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY23.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home