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Adler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON | $87,410 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $33,300 |
| HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE | $12,760 |
| HOUSTON SYMPHONY | $10,200 |
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $10,125 |
| SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SVCS | $5,500 |
| EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ATLANTA JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | $4,620 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $4,550 |
| HOLOCAUST MUSEUM OF HOUSTON | $4,200 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART - MFAH | $1,500 |
| EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,400 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
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 (FY22–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +15% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TMTHE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON3× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +65%
- HMHOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON4× · 2022–2025 · $65k · revenue +73%
- TMTHE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $226k
- RORiver Oaks Chamber Orchestraone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue -14%
- ACAMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +49%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
The mission of the Houston Academy of Medicine is to support the community service, education, scientific, and charitable programs for physicians, their patients, and the community at large in Harris County.
American Leadership Forum (ALF) brings together, in classes, leaders with diverse perspectives so they can build relationships, learn to dialogue and respectfully differ, and work together for the good of our community.
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…
The mission of HGO is to enrich our diverse community through the art of opera. We will do so by creating, curating, exploring, and producing outstanding experiences centered around the human voice.(Continued on Schedule O)
Harmonia Stellarum is an ensemble of professional vocalists and instrumentalists specialized in historically informed performance practice who seek to inspire, entertain, and enlighten audiences with meaningful, historically informed…
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.…
Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…
The mission of the institute has remained constant since its founding in 1953. as its restated articles of incorporation state the primary purpose and objective of the howard hughes medical institute shall be the promotion of human…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 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 53 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 102 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 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Symphony Society ↗
- Who funds SEVEN ACRES JEWISH SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASIA SOCIETY TEXAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
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 Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Mechia Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Stanford & Joan Alexander Foundation · The Brodsky Foundation · Houston Jewish Community Foundation · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · AI and Manet Schepps Foundation · Marek Family Foundation
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% 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.
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