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Press 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$247k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Press Adelman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$16k0%
FY20248$16k13%
FY20238$18k13%
FY20229$16k22%
FY20219$16k33%
FY20208$12k50%
FY20197$14k29%
FY20185$11k0%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$38kFood & Nutrition$30kYouth Development$21kEducation$15kInternational$10kArts & Culture$7kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Press Adelman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly$25,00090%
Food Bank of Northern Indiana Inc$16,00070%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago$15,00070%
Common Pantry$12,50070%
Friends of the Israel Defense Forces$9,50050%
Shalva Inc$7,00020%
Junior Achievement of Chicago$5,50050%
The Night Ministry$5,00030%
Just One Chesed Inc$3,00020%
Beacon Inc$2,00010%
Inspiration Corporation$2,00010%
NoStigmas$1,60024%
Hoosier Hills Food Bank Inc$1,50010%
Operation Walk Chicago$1,50010%
Salt and Light Coalition Nfp$1,00010%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Press Adelman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Brothers - Friends of the Elderly: $25,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Indiana Inc: $16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Chicago: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCommon Pantry: $12,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetShalva Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of Chicago: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Night Ministry: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJust One Chesed Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBeacon Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInspiration Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNoStigmas: $1,600 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetHoosier Hills Food Bank Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Walk Chicago: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSalt and Light Coalition Nfp: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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.

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How do I get to Press Adelman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Press 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.

About Press Adelman Foundation

How much does Press Adelman Foundation give?
Press Adelman Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $15,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Press Adelman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Youth Development (16%).
Who are Press Adelman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Little Brothers - Friends of the Elderly ($25k), Food Bank of Northern Indiana Inc ($16k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago ($15k).
Does Press Adelman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Press Adelman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Press Adelman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Press Adelman Foundation based?
Press Adelman Foundation is based in NY.

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 19 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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