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Joann and Thomas Adler Family Foundation

To further the charitable, educational and religious purposes of the jewish federation of cleveland ("federation").

$98k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$158kArts & Culture$50kReligion$50kCivil Rights$36kHuman Services$35kHealth$30kFood & Nutrition$10k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $47,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $98,400 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,400 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEMS INC$10,000
CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION$10,000
SUBURBAN TEMPLE - KOL AMI$10,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$7,000
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 (FY18–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $7k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $7k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $7k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $7k → 17%FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $7k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Joann and Thomas Adler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 98%.

Joann and Thomas Adler Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$326k · 6 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$326k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

83%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’22’23’25
PhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +70%
  • FC
    FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO
    6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    4× · 2018–2025 · $30k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CP
    CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION
    one grant, 2025 · $10k
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
05the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $125,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELANDJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $32,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELANDPlayhouse Square Foundation: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePlayhouse Squar…Suburban Temple - Kol Ami: $50,000 · OtherSuburban Temple…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $36,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JE…FAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $35,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CON…UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 · HealthUNIVERSIT…CLEVELAND PUBLIC MARKET CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$157,500Arts & Culture$50,000Other$50,000Civil Rights$36,000Human Services$35,000Health$30,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPlayhouse Square Foundation: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $35,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND: $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $30,000 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 8 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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