· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY | $4,000 |
| SOUTH BEND EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| JUST ONE CHESED | $2,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA | $2,000 |
| COMMON PANTRY | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO | $2,000 |
| RUTH PAGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FBFOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +129%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +23%
- CPCOMMON PANTRY7× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- BIBEACON INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +14%
- ICInspiration Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +35%
- HHHOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +18%
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.
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.
Our mission is to ensure that Chicago seniors and people with disabilities benefit from nutritious meal programs that improve their quality of life and maximize independence.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
New hope house northwest is a volunteer-driven food pantry dedicated to providing emergency food assistance to individuals and families in need. the pantry serves chicago's far northwest side, norridge, and harwood heights residents,…
The Organization's mission is to assist shut-ins, usually the elderly, by delivering hot, nutritious and low-cost meals to them in their homes.
Street samaritans is an illinois not for profit corporation incorporated in 2017. the purpose of the organization is to provide chicagoland's homeless population with fulfillment of their most pressing needs including food, water and…
Chicago Hope runs a food pantry twice a week that serves over 100 families. The organization is working toward the furtherance of wrap around services.
A better chicago is changing how chicago fights poverty by investing in bold ideas that create opportunity for our youth.
Chicago Jobs Council (CJC) pursues its mission through advocacy, applied research, public education and capacity-building initiatives focused on influencing the development or reform of public policies and programs. From 18 original…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Maot chitim of greater chicago provides meaningful opportunities, through the delivery of food and other necessities, to help those in need celebrate jewish life with dignity and joy.
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
Care for Friends provides fundamental food, clothing and healthcare programs for individuals in Chicago experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Our "no questions asked" policy removes the most common barriers to assistance and allows us…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds SHALVA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Just One Chesed Inc ↗
- Who funds BEACON INC ↗
- Who funds Inspiration Corporation ↗
- Who funds NoStigmas ↗
- Who funds HOOSIER HILLS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Operation Walk Chicago ↗
- Who funds SALT AND LIGHT COALITION NFP ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Press Adelman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Press Adelman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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