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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0177% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.1MEducation$500kArts & Culture$98kReligion$36kHealth$33kRecreation & Sports$30kCivil Rights$21kInternational$20kEnvironment$5kOther$853k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $133k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$32
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ADATH ISRAEL$50,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA$50,000
TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$35,000
PENN HILLEL$25,000
THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$25,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$20,000
JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE$18,000
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$10,000
FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE$5,000
SPARKYOUTH$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $18k → 7%WHYY: $10k → 9%SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $125k → 10%CARON TREATMENT CENTERS: $10k → 11%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT: $45k → 22%THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP: $40k → 17%ABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL: $25k → 12%JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE: $18k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $125k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 22%THE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP: $40k → 17%PHILLY FIGHTS CANCER: $25k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $45k → 10%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT: $20k → 22%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTRE POMPIDOU INC: $10k → 17%PHILADELPHIA CITY ROWING: $10k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL MAIN ACCOUNT: $45k → 10%PHILADELPHIA CITY ROWING: $10k → 7%THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL: $20k → 10%TEMPLE HILLEL: $25k → 22%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MEDICAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH: $10k → 7%ADATH ISRAEL CAPITAL FUND: $68k → 7%PHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB & HUMANE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $705k → 22%ADATH ISRAEL: $60k → 7%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $318k → 22%ADATH ISRAEL: $50k → 7%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $300k → 22%THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50k → 17%ADATH ISRAEL: $50k → 7%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $281k → 22%THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $25k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $210k → 22%FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE: $10k → 17%JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $150k → 22%CHILDREN'S RIGHTS BENEFIT OFFICE: $10k → 17%THE PHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION: $12k → 22%CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10k → 17%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $10k → 22%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $10k → 22%THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $92k → 22%PENN HILLEL: $75k → 22%PENN HILLEL: $50k → 22%PENN HILLEL: $38k → 22%TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $35k → 22%PENN HILLEL: $25k → 22%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $27k → 22%NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $15k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 34% of Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 73% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 13 repeat orgs$408k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
25

Total granted

$1.2M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

62%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCivil RightsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • SS
    SHIPLEY SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2023 · $315k · revenue +18%
  • WEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY
    4× · 2018–2022 · $62k · revenue +41%
  • JL
    JEWISH LEARNING VENTURE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $36k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • AI
    ADATH ISRAEL CAPITAL FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $68k
  • TS
    THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL MAIN ACCOUNT
    one grant, 2022 · $45k
  • NF
    NPR FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Jewish Film and Media

Philadelphia jewish film and medias mission is to educate and engage diverse philadelphia communities, jewish and non-jewish alike, by presenting world-class film premieres, repertory cinema, and associated programs that are inspired by…

Human Services
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
6
Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh

Our vision is a flourishing jewish community where everyone feels included, supported and inspired. in order to accomplish this vision we cultivate resources, connect people and collaborate across the community to live and fulfill jewish…

Philanthropy
7
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
8
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life At the Penn State University

To enrich the lives of jewish and undergraduate students so that they may enrich the jewish people and the world. penn state hillel's student leaders, professionals, and lay leaders are dedicated to creating a pluralistic, welcoming, and…

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9
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia City Rowing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr20%19%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr20%3%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr13%85%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
4,151/32,996

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,964,400 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY — $124,430 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY+1 more — $1,800 · PhilanthropyPENN HILLEL — $188,000 · OtherPENN HILLELADATH ISRAEL — $160,000 · OtherADATH ISRAELTHE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER FOR LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP — $80,000 · OtherTHE NATIONAL JEWISH CENTER …JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA — $75,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY…ADATH ISRAEL CAPITAL FUND — $68,200 · OtherADATH ISRAEL CAPITAL FUNDTEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT — $65,000 · OtherTEMPLE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTI…THE SHIPLEY SCHOOL MAIN ACCOUNT — $45,000 · OtherNPR FOUNDATION — $45,000 · Other+18 more — $172,750 · Other+18 moreSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $315,000 · EducationSHIPLEY SCHOOLTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $135,334 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE…Education Law Center - PA — $30,000 · EducationEducation Law C…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $20,000 · EducationWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY — $62,000 · Arts & CultureWHYY INC — $13,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $12,438 · Arts & CultureAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJEWISH LEARNING VENTURE — $36,000 · ReligionABORTION ACCESS FOR ALL INC — $25,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthLANKENAU MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsPHILADELPHIA SKATING CLUB & HUMANE SOCIE TY — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Philanthropy$2,090,630Other$898,950Education$500,334Arts & Culture$97,938Religion$36,000Health$32,500Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,964,400 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSHIPLEY SCHOOL — $315,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $135,334 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetPhiladelphia City Rowing Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE FOUNDATION INC — $12,438 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetAUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Centre Pompidou Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Saramar Charitabl…Erlbaum Family Founda…Jewish Federation of …Ann & Murray Spain Fo…Gilroy and Lillian P …Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Cigna Group Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal Fund
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Susanna Lachs and Dean Adler Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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