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Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$32
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving9$205k33%
FY202313$387k54%
FY202217$372k76%
FY20217$90k71%
FY20201$20k0%
FY20198$205k75%
FY20187$182k86%
FY20171$125kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MEducation$645kReligion$489kArts & Culture$153kHealth$73kSocial Science$45kRecreation & Sports$35kCivil Rights$31kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($703k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetShipley School: $315,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: $124,430 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $62,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNpr Foundation: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Learning Venture: $36,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAbortion Access for All Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetTemple Hillel: $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWhyy Inc: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation Inc: $12,438 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetChildren's Rights Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhiladelphia Skating Club & Humane Socie Ty: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Rittenhouse Square: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShare Food Program: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLankenau Medical Center Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

The Saramar Charitable FundPA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Saramar Charitable Fund · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Ann & Murray Spain Foundation · Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Cigna Group Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund

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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About Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation

How much does Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation give?
Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $239,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Education (18%), Religion (13%).
Who are Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Shipley School ($315k), United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey ($124k), Jewish Theological Seminary of America ($75k).
Does Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler 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 Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Saramar Charitable Fund, Erlbaum Family Foundation, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
Where is Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation based?
Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation is based in PA.

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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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