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Anti-Defamation League

ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE (the "league") is a leading anti-hate organization that was founded in 1913 in response to an escalating climate of antisemitism and bigotry.

$3.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$3.0MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$223kCivil Rights$215kScience & Tech$169kMembership Benefit$135kHealth$57kInternational$50k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $2,658,728, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,221,319 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $562,591 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $230k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $223k
  • $250k+1 grant · $2.2M
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$101M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JLENS$2,205,728
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$150,000
THE GIVING BACK FUND$73,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION$25,000
ALPHA EPSILON PHI SORORITY INC$25,000
SIGMA DELTA TAU SOCIETY$25,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC$25,000
ZETA BETA TAU FRATERNITY INC$25,000
ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC$25,000
CHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC$25,000
SIGMA ALPHA MU FRATERNITY INC$25,000
MPAC NYC INC$15,000
NAACP$15,000
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 (FY22–25, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $125k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $25k → 17%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

WA
WI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CA
CO
DE
DC
LA
TX
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.
$4.0M · 14 repeat orgs$872k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
14

Total granted

$4.0M
$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

57%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $280k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionCivil RightsHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther
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

  • J
    JLENS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +275% · 90% of their budget
  • NU
    NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +4%
  • AE
    ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $85k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2024 · $169k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue +5%
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +30%
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
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
2
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
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alpha Epsilon Phi Sorority Inc; the most unlike its peers is One Fact 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

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JLENS: $2,898,422 · ReligionJLENS+1 more: $75,000 · ReligionREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $169,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVE…PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · OtherPRAIRIE VIEW A AND M…ALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC: $85,000 · OtherALPHA EPSILON PI FRA…UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $75,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUD…UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $60,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTO…University of Wisconsin Madison: $50,000 · OtherUniversity of Wiscon…LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · OtherLOUISIANA STATE UNIV…Texas Southern University: $45,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $43,360 · OtherMECHON HADAR: $35,000 · Other+11 more: $227,500 · Other+11 moreThe Trustees of Princeton University: $315,000 · EducationThe Trustees of …William Marsh Rice University: $65,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Ri…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CA…University of St Thomas: $50,000 · EducationUniversity of St…New York University: $50,000 · EducationNew York Univers…TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $45,000 · EducationTEXAS SOUTHERN U…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERS…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationALPHA EPSILON PHI SORORITY INC: $25,000 · Education+2 more: $36,600 · EducationNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $73,000 · PhilanthropyONE FACT FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Health
Religion$2,973,422Other$929,860Education$711,600Human Services$150,000Arts & Culture$150,000Philanthropy$73,000Health$40,000

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 budgetJLENS: $2,898,422 over 2y, 90% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $315,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FRATERNITY INC: $85,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $73,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORASHA OLAMI INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZETA BETA TAU FRATERNITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PHI SORORITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetATID MOVEMENT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSigma Alpha Mu Fraternity Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSIGMA DELTA TAU SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYale University: $21,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RICHARDSON CENTER FOR GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT: $20,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACTION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

FjcJewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
FjcNY13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fjc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Anti-Defamation League funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anti-Defamation League. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 38 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 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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