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Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation at a glance

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Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$287k
Granted FY2026still arriving
23
Grants FY2026still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$606kInternational$489kCivil Rights$323kArts & Culture$191kPublic Benefit$94kReligion$20kEducation$17kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2026 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k17 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$750
Median grant
7
States reached
$597k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BVM Capacity Building Inst$100,000
Global Health Partners$50,000
Sustantainable Markets Foundation$50,000
Institute for Policy Studies$25,000
Women Donor's Network$22,730
Ms Foundation for Women$20,000
Amusement Park Sports Inc$9,750
Center for Cuban Studie$2,500
WRRAP$1,500
Just Detention International$1,500
New Israel Fund$1,000
San Francisco Mime Troupe$750
Vietnamese Veterans Against the War$500
Actor's Gang$500
Multitude Films Inc$500
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 (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ACTBLUE: $25k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $20k → 10%Black Voters Matter Building Instit: $60k → 13%IMEU: $10k → 10%MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER: $10k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $29k → 20%BVM Capacity Building Inst: $100k → 13%Institute for Public Accuracy: $6k → 10%TIDES FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%NEO Philanthropy: $60k → 17%Ms Foundation for Women: $20k → 20%BVM Capacity Building Inst: $50k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $6k → 10%Sustantainable Markets Foundation: $50k → 17%Ms Foundation for Women: $10k → 20%BVM Capacity Building Inst: $50k → 13%WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $23k → 10%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $30k → 17%Center for Cuban Studie: $6k → 20%BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE: $25k → 13%Center for Study of Political Graph: $18k → 14%NEO PHILANTHROPY: $15k → 17%Center for Study of Political Graph: $8k → 14%Global Health Partners: $50k → 17%Just Vision Inc: $60k → 14%Institute for Policy Studies: $50k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $50k → 14%LEONARD I BEERMAN FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%JUST VISION: $50k → 14%Institute for Policy Studies: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $25k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $25k → 14%Institute for Policy Studies: $25k → 14%JUST VISION: $25k → 14%AMERICA PEACE FOR NOW: $10k → 14%Just Vision Inc: $10k → 14%Intl Documentary Association: $85k → 14%International Documentary Foundatio: $50k → 14%If Not Now: $10k → 14%INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION: $35k → 14%BREAKTHROUGH: $10k → 17%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: $10k → 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 35 repeat orgs$481k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 20 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
45

Total granted

$1.4M
$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+21%

Still filing today

74%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther
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

  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    7× · 2017–2026 · $252k · revenue +276%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2018–2026 · $227k · revenue ×12
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
    6× · 2018–2026 · $200k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • CC
    Courageous Conversation Global Foun
    one grant, 2025 · $150k
  • BV
    Black Voters Matter Building Instit
    one grant, 2025 · $60k
  • A
    ACTBLUE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
The Conversationalist
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2
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
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
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
5
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
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
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
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
9
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
10
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
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 92 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/57
Grantees still filing
41/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $252,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NETWORKTIDES FOUNDATION: $230,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONLIBERTY 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…Sustantainable Markets Foundation: $50,000 · OtherSustantainable Markets Foun…ACTBLUE: $25,000 · OtherCenter for Study of Political Graph: $25,000 · OtherCRISTOTSAL: $20,000 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH: $17,500 · Other+48 more: $175,174 · Other+48 moreINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $200,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR POLICY ST…Just Vision Inc: $155,000 · InternationalJust Vision IncGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS INC: $50,000 · InternationalGLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS …A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: $20,000 · InternationalIF NOT NOW EDUCATION FUND: $16,100 · International+3 more: $8,850 · InternationalBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $226,856 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUI…MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $61,105 · Civil RightsMS FOUNDATION FO…+4 more: $17,520 · Civil Rights+4 moreINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATION…INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC ACCURACY: $41,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE F…+12 more: $10,523 · Arts & CultureNEO 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$512,500Other$522,674International$449,950Civil Rights$305,481Arts & Culture$221,523Public Benefit$120,000Community Improvement$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK: $252,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $226,856 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES: $200,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $170,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetJust Vision Inc: $155,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $61,105 over 5y, 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 budgetCENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC CONCERN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $4,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRICHLAND SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB: $3,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES ALLIANCE FOR A NEW ECONOMY: $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE INC: $2,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR INC: $1,850 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOTHER WORLDS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTOR'S GANG INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $721 over 5y, 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 budgetPER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 19% of budgetMONTHLY REVIEW FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $180 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.

  • Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Just Vision Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH PARTNERS 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 CENTER FOR CUBAN STUDIESINC ↗
  • Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • 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 NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Higher Heights Leadership Fund ↗

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.

Tides FoundationCalifornia Community …Liberty Hill Foundati…Rockefeller Brothers …ImpactassetsincFoundation to Promote…The Annenberg Foundat…Amalgamated Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…
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

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 Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 92 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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