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Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation

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.

$547k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$606kInternational$489kCivil Rights$323kArts & Culture$191kPublic Benefit$94kReligion$20kEducation$17kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $447k
$5,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$522k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Courageous Conversation Global Foun$150,000
Tides Foundation$75,000
Women Donor's Network$62,300
Black Voters Matter Building Instit$60,000
BVM Capacity Building Inst$50,000
International Documentary Foundatio$50,000
Institute for Policy Studies$25,000
Liberty Hill Foundation$15,000
Just Vision Inc$10,000
Center for Study of Political Graph$7,500
Center for Cuban Studie$6,000
Women Make Movies$5,000
IMEU$5,000
Institute for Public Accuracy$5,000
Leonard Beerman Foundation$5,000
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 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTBLUE: $25k → 8%ULTRAVIOLET EDUCATION FUND: $5k → 8%IMEU: $10k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $20k → 10%MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $29k → 20%National Network of Abortion Funds: $5k → 8%Black Voters Matter Building Instit: $60k → 13%IMEU: $5k → 10%MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $10k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%Ms Foundation for Women: $10k → 20%BVM Capacity Building Inst: $50k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $6k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%NEO Philanthropy: $60k → 17%Center for Cuban Studie: $6k → 20%BVM Capacity Building Inst: $50k → 13%Institute for Public Accuracy: $6k → 10%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $30k → 17%BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $25k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $5k → 10%WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $23k → 10%Center for Study of Political Graph: $18k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 17%Center for Study of Political Graph: $8k → 14%IF NOT NOW: $6k → 14%SMF FOUNDATION GC: $6k → 17%Just Vision Inc: $60k → 14%Institute for Policy Studies: $50k → 14%LEONARD I BEERMAN FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $50k → 14%JUST VISION: $50k → 14%Institute for Policy Studies: $25k → 14%JUST VISION: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $25k → 14%Just Vision Inc: $10k → 14%AMERICA PEACE FOR NOW: $10k → 14%Intl Documentary Association: $85k → 14%International Documentary Foundatio: $50k → 14%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $35k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH: $10k → 17%If Not Now: $10k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH: $8k → 17%Liberty Hill Foundation: $15k → 14%ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10k → 14%CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE: $7k → 14%Amusement Park Sports Inc: $7k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
NC
DC
GA

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 31 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
38

Total granted

$1.2M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+14%

Still filing today

77%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther

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

  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    6× · 2017–2025 · $229k · revenue +276%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
    5× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +21%
  • JV
    Just Vision Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • A
    ACTBLUE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AJ
    A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -3%
  • C
    CRISTOTSAL
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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.

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The Conversationalist
2
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
5
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
6
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
7
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
8
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
9
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

Established in 1971, the mission of the new york foundation for the arts (nyfa) is to empower artists in all disciplines, as well as cultural workers, to achieve success on their own terms by providing critical support, resources, and…

Arts & Culture
10
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
11
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

12
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Smf Foundation Gc. 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 backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Arts Performance and Develo…Community Healthcare Servic…Jewish Community SupportPolicy Research and Advocacy
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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr13%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%6%20–35yr12%49%35–55yr13%17%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
12,280/89,369

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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 85 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
35/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION — $230,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $229,270 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORKLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $5,500 · PhilanthropyCourageous Conversation Global Foun — $150,000 · OtherCourageous Conversation Glo…Black Voters Matter Building Instit — $60,000 · OtherBlack Voters Matter Buildin…Center for Study of Political Graph — $25,000 · OtherCenter for Study of Politic…ACTBLUE — $25,000 · OtherACTBLUECRISTOTSAL — $20,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH — $17,500 · OtherCSPG FOUNDATION — $16,500 · Other+45 more — $141,420 · Other+45 moreINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $175,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR POLICY S…Just Vision Inc — $155,000 · InternationalJust Vision IncA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $20,000 · InternationalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEA…IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND — $16,100 · International+3 more — $7,850 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $170,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL…INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY — $41,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE FOR…+10 more — $9,422 · Arts & CultureBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $126,856 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACIT…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $41,105 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATI…ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDA…+2 more — $7,500 · Civil RightsNEO Philanthropy Inc — $105,000 · Public BenefitCURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC — $15,000 · Public BenefitMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $2,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$489,770Other$455,420International$373,950Arts & Culture$220,422Civil Rights$185,461Public Benefit$120,000Community Improvement$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $230,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $229,270 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $175,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $170,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJust Vision Inc — $155,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $126,856 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $41,105 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY — $41,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND — $16,100 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE — $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMF FOUNDATION GC — $5,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRICHLAND SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $3,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $3,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC — $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTHER WORLDS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR INC — $1,350 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC — $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES — $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON DREAMS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCREATING HOPE INTERNATIONAL — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPER FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 19% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART 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.

  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Just Vision Inc
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc
  • Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY
  • Who funds LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
  • Who funds IF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND
  • Who funds CURIOUS COMMUNICATIONS INC
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC
  • Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC
  • Who funds CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE
  • Who funds SMF FOUNDATION GC
  • Who funds PUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC
  • Who funds Higher Heights Leadership Fund
  • Who funds OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC

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.

Tides FoundationCA20.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · California Community Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Annenberg Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation 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 85 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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