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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.

$112k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$41k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$731kPhilanthropy$555kArts & Culture$516kHuman Services$202kReligion$154kHealth$64kYouth Development$13kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k50 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $79k
$250
Median grant
16
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VIENNA MATCLUB INC$1,000
DES MOINES METRO OPERA$1,000
THE TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$1,000
GREEN LIGHT FUND$1,000
VERMONT PARKS FOREVER$1,000
VILLAGE VOLUNTEERS$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%JEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING: $10k → 8%NAPLES SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 10%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $250 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $100 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $100 → 14%EDUCARE WASHINGTON DC: $100 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $700 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%THE ANCHOR FUND: $500 → 14%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

VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
DE
AR
DC
LA
AL
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 58 repeat orgs$355k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
27

Total granted

$1.7M
$304k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+36%

Still filing today

53%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RH
    ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +81%
  • EJ
    EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $121k · revenue +36%
  • TS
    The Studio Theatre Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • WH
    WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +51%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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
The George Washington University

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
8
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
9
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
10
Washington Performing Arts Society

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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12
Washington & Jefferson College

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Washington Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 107 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
43/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL: $286,690 · OtherSIDWELL FRIENDS SCHOOLTEMPLE SINAI: $150,000 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $121,000 · OtherEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC…THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON: $100,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTONIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherDELAWARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $41,000 · Other+56 more: $234,987 · Other+56 moreROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE THEATRE IN…The Studio Theatre Inc: $120,000 · Arts & CultureThe Studio Theatre IncNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH ASSN OF WASHINGTON DC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCH…THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATR…THE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $42,140 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $345,440 · EducationTHE SEED FOUNDATIONGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $32,250 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSI…+10 more: $32,350 · Education+10 moreGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHIN…+2 more: $2,350 · PhilanthropyWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthUSAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S: $2,500 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $2,250 · Health+3 more: $1,850 · HealthJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE ANCHOR FUND: $4,200 · Human ServicesEDUCARE DC: $1,800 · Human ServicesTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $11,500 · EnvironmentLEWES IN BLOOM INC: $3,000 · Environment+2 more: $400 · Environment
Other$1,033,677Arts & Culture$472,140Education$410,040Philanthropy$302,350Health$56,600Human Services$51,000Environment$14,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEED FOUNDATION: $345,440 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetEDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC INC: $121,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Studio Theatre Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COUNCIL FOR THE AGING OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $32,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF LANGUAGE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $12,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $7,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASHINGTON BALLET: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $5,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $4,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANCHOR FUND: $4,200 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetDC SCORES: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLEWES IN BLOOM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $2,750 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLEWES PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKIVA MICROFUNDS: $2,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $2,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $2,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIENNA MATCLUB INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCARE DC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEED SCHOOL OF MARYLAND: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $1,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTRAL SCHOLARSHIP BUREAU INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONCERTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEWES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $800 over 4y, 0.0% 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 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 FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…Clark-Winchcole Found…T Rowe Price Program …Dimick Foundation Joh…Combined Jewish Phila…George Wasserman Fami…Posner-Wallace Founda…The Community Foundat…Jacob & Charlotte Leh…Zickler Family Founda…S Kann Sons Foundatio…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Adler Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adler Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 107 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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