· Private foundation
Adler Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| KIPP TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| GLASSELL SCHOOL OF ART - MFAH | $1,500 |
| EVELYN RUBENSTEIN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,400 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
55 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. 55 of the 102 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 Rothko Chapel ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN JEWISH LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS ↗
- Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adler Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adler Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Healthcare Center Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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