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Louis & Bessie Adler Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; 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 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. 8 of the 11 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis & Bessie Adler Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis & Bessie Adler Foundation Inc. 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 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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