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Ethel & Philip Adelman Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2022
16
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Philanthropy$939kHealth$213kEducation$139kArts & Culture$85kEnvironment$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kCivil Rights$4kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2022 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $97,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k14 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Columbia University Business School$50,000
Hospital for Special Surgery$21,500
Mary Manning Walsh NY Rehabilitation Center$5,000
St. John's Hospital Foundation$5,000
Center for Reproductive Rights$4,000
Dominican University of New York$2,200
Silver Shield Foundation$2,000
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,500
Museum of Modern Art$1,500
Epilepsy Foundation of New England$1,000
The Plaistow Firemen's Association$1,000
Manhattan Theatre Club$1,000
The Jewish Museum$1,000
The Plaistow Lion's Club$500
Whitney Museum of American Art$300
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$199k · 16 repeat orgs$241k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
28

Total granted

$199k
$232k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

69%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther

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

  • SJ
    St John's Health Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +153%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +72%
  • MO
    Museum of Modern Art
    3× · 2018–2022 · $7k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • PA
    President and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +47%
  • NY
    NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -14%
  • JH
    Jackson Hole Community Center for the Arts
    one grant, 2018 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
4
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
5
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
6
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
9
Bard College

Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.

Education
10
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
11
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
12
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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.…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is East Hampton Meals On Wheels 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Classical Music OrchestrasPregnancy Support CentersLocal History MuseumsVolunteer Fire & RescueGovernment Accountability &…Veteran Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesCommunity Theater CompaniesPublic Library SupportJewish Community FederationsChildhood Cancer SupportEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community Hospital SystemsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%9%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%26%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,727

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.

03the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Hospital for Special Surgery — $112,200 · OtherHospital for Special SurgeryJackson Hole Community Center for the Arts — $25,000 · OtherJackson Hole Community Center for the ArtsALEX LOWE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherALEX LOWE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCHaverford College — $24,000 · OtherHaverford CollegeVineyard Theater — $15,500 · OtherVineyard TheaterMary Manning Walsh NY Rehabilitation Center — $15,000 · OtherMary Manning Walsh NY Rehabilitation CenterPlanned Parenthood — $10,200 · Other+20 more — $28,970 · Other+20 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA…President and Fellows of Middlebury College — $50,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…ST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $8,000 · EducationST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEG…+4 more — $4,400 · EducationNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $50,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESB…St John's Health Foundation — $15,000 · HealthSt John's Heal…+1 more — $250 · HealthTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art — $6,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $5,150 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $4,600 · Arts & CultureMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GOHAN SOCIETY — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $2,175 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $27,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $250 · PhilanthropyPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $11,960 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $520 · EnvironmentTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $4,000 · Civil Rights
Other$255,870Education$112,400Health$65,250Arts & Culture$40,425Philanthropy$27,750Environment$12,480Civil Rights$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE — $27,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt John's Health Foundation — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC — $11,960 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $5,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM — $4,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOHAN SOCIETY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREE ARTS FOR ABUSED CHILDREN OF NEW YORK CITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES WESTCHESTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUILD HALL OF EAST HAMPTON INC — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Verizon FoundationJewish Communal FundPaypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ13× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $51k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines