· Private foundation
Adler Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $41,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $25,250 |
| THE SEED FOUNDATION | $13,190 |
| SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY | $5,000 |
| LEWES IN BLOOM | $3,000 |
| US AGAINST ALZHEIMERS | $2,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS & SCHOLARS | $2,500 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $2,250 |
| SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | $2,190 |
| VERMONT PARKS FOREVER | $1,000 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $1,000 |
| VIENNA MATCLUB INC | $1,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,000 |
| GREEN LIGHT FUND | $1,000 |
| VILLAGE VOLUNTEERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- RHROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +81%
- EJEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC3× · 2022–2024 · $121k · revenue +36%
- TSThe Studio Theatre Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TJTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTONone grant, 2017 · $100k
- WHWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +51%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eya Foundation Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 107 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 THE SEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds The Studio Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE ANCHOR FUND ↗
- Who funds DC SCORES ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · George Wasserman Family Foundation Inc · Posner-Wallace Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Jacob & Charlotte Lehrman Foundation · Zickler Family Foundation Inc · S Kann Sons Foundation Inc
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 Adler Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lewes Public Library Inc — 27% of income from government
- Vermont Woodlands Association — 21% of income from government
- Coastal Concerts Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Parks Forever Inc — 8% of income from government
- A Wider Circle Inc — 6% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Lewes Historical Society Inc — 4% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Greater Lewes Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 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.