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Stefan Adelipour for Life Foundation

Donations to a childrens hospital and other charities

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Human Services$233kEducation$185kArts & Culture$118kInternational$96kHealth$90kPhilanthropy$55kReligion$25k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $76,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $102,250 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$66,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$166k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$66,000
BELEV ECHAD INC$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10k → 13%GIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC: $7k → 11%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%IRANIAN AMERICAN WOMEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%BELEV ECHAD INC: $102k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $25k → 17%BELEV ECHAD INC: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
GA
FL
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 8 repeat orgs$202k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

$676k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

100%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    6× · 2017–2025 · $194k · revenue ×13
  • BE
    BELEV ECHAD INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $137k · revenue +15%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $100k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • JO
    JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue 0%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSFAT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
2
University of Judaism Foundation
—
3
Jewish Life Foundation
—
4
Zichron Chaim Meir Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Yad Yosef Foundation
Philanthropy
6
Tzemach Yifroch Foundation
—
7
Impact Forum Foundation

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Philanthropy
8
The Afghan Jewish Foundation Inc
—
9
American Friends of Tzir Hemed
Philanthropy
10
The Chasdei Shimon Foundation
Religion
11
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Zichron Boruch Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brothers for Life; the most unlike its peers is Worldwide Friends Foundation Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELEV ECHAD INC: $136,500 · Human ServicesBELEV ECHAD INCIranian American Women Foundation: $65,015 · Human ServicesIranian American Women Found…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $6,500 · Human ServicesBrothers for Life: $194,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for LifeCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBABSON COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEJOHN L MILLER-GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL PTO INC: $30,000 · EducationJOHN L MILLER-GREA…WORLDWIDE FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 · EducationWORLDWIDE FRIENDS …MAGBIT FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherMAGBIT FOUNDA…GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherGREAT NECK NO…YAHALOM FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherYAHALOM FOUND…GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15,000 · OtherGREAT NECK UN…TEMPLE AHAVAT SHALOM: $10,000 · OtherTEMPLE AHAVAT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC: $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIE…WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $56,800 · InternationalWOMEN'S IN…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF…EZER MIZION: $10,000 · InternationalEZER MIZIO…JGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyJGIVE-FRI…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JE…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSFAT INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN …THE HOPE FOUNDATION: $54,000 · HealthCANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,000 · Health
Human Services$218,015Arts & Culture$204,000Education$139,500Other$102,500International$81,800Philanthropy$70,000Health$62,000

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 budgetBrothers for Life: $194,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetBELEV ECHAD INC: $136,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIranian American Women Foundation: $65,015 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION: $56,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE FOUNDATION: $54,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMAGBIT FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetJGIVE-FRIENDS OF ASOR FUND USA INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN L MILLER-GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL PTO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 49% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TSFAT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEZER MIZION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER TEL HASHOMER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCharity Navigator: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stefan Adelipour for Life Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stefan Adelipour for Life Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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 23 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 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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