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Louis & Bessie 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.

$400k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Animals$604kEducation$521kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$25kEnvironment$3k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$668k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$250,000
THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER$100,000
ANIMAL RESCUE FUND$25,000
THE ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $25k → 7%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $25k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%ANIMAL RESCUE FUND: $25k → 7%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE: $500 → 17%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $50k → 17%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $239k → 17%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $214k → 17%THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 17%THE ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL: $25k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $250k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 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

6
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-14%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’22’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TA
    THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    3× · 2019–2025 · $554k · revenue +30%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    2× · 2024–2025 · $300k · revenue +75%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +87%
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $1k

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

04Your 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
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

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

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

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

Health
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
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
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

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 The Animal Medical Center. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $553,572 · AnimalsTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTERThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $300,000 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox …The Trustees of Princeton University — $60,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton UniversityTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL — $60,000 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOLTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHO…ANIMAL RESCUE FUND — $50,000 · OtherANIMAL RESCUE FU…THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherTHE ALLEN-STEVEN…+1 more — $1,000 · OtherCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $500 · Environment
Animals$553,572Education$420,000Other$176,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Environment$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER — $553,572 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC — $500 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Louis & Bessie Adler Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 88%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc88% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of 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)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Louis & Bessie Adler Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Louis & Bessie 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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