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Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc at a glance

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Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kHealth$10kArts & Culture$8kEducation$5kHuman Services$3kAnimals$1k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$340k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNT HILL FARM TRUST INC$6,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD CT$3,000
MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC$2,000
RIDGEFIELD VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$2,000
UCONN FOUNDATION$2,000
FOUNDATION OF NUVANCE HEALTH$1,000
ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC$1,000
ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION$1,000
CARMELLA'S CUPBOARD$1,000
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93k · 12 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$93k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+3%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • HH
    HUNT HILL FARM TRUST
    5× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +268%
  • RA
    ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $9k · revenue +7%
  • RI
    RVNAHEALTH INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • AW
    ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -36%
  • AB
    ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +3%
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
Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc

Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…

Community Improvement
2
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

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3
Milford Historical Society
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4
Connecticut Health Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Meals On Wheels of Wilton Inc

To provide meals for the homebound, needy residents of wilton, ct on a temporary or long term basis.

Food & Nutrition
6
Winchester Historical Society
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7
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated

The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…

Health
8
Loaves and Fishes Food Shelf
Food & Nutrition
9
Ridgefield Volunteer Fire Dept

Supplement and support professional fire fighters and emergency ambulance services in ridgefield, ct

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10
West Colebrook Farm Company
Arts & Culture
11
New River Hill Farm Trust
Education
12
Ridgefield Fresh Air Association
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ridgefield Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hunt Hill Farm Trust. 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

11 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. 11 of the 15 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC: $10,000 · OtherMERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INCROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 · OtherROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INCRVNAHEALTH INC: $7,500 · OtherRVNAHEALTH INCKENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,450 · OtherKENT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONTOWN OF NEW MILFORD DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICES: $3,450 · OtherTOWN OF NEW MILFORD DEPT OF SOCIAL SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more: $1,000 · OtherCAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED: $10,450 · Food & NutritionCAMELLAS CUPBOARD IN…MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS OF R…HUNT HILL FARM TRUST: $13,500 · EnvironmentHUNT HILL FARM …LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $10,450 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FISH…ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesABILITY BEYON…ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $8,500 · Public Safety & DisasterROXBURY VO…THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $1,300 · Animals
Other$36,900Food & Nutrition$17,450Environment$13,500Human Services$11,450Public Safety & Disaster$8,500Education$7,000Animals$1,300

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 budgetHUNT HILL FARM TRUST: $13,500 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $10,450 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetCAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED: $10,450 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetMERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC: $1,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Persbacker Foundation…The Connecticut Commu…Union Savings Bank Fo…Jean Widmark and Rich…The Lawrence J Portel…Synchrony FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Persbacker Foundation IncCT17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Persbacker Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report 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.
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Find your warmest path to Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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-PF 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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