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The Adar 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.

$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$538k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$12MHuman Services$616kInternational$266kFood & Nutrition$208kEducation$189kYouth Development$155kPublic Safety & Disaster$150kHealth$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k37 grants · $152k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $617k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
$13,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$538,000
ZICHRON MENACHEM INC$377,500
AMERICAN FRIEMDS OF YISA BRACHA INC$312,000
CONGREGATION ZICHRON REFOEL$292,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVEH ZION$260,000
Individual grant recipient$225,000
YESHIVAS TORAS SIMCHA$199,800
MESIVTA SHAAREI CHAIM$160,000
FRIENDS OF MOSDOS KNESES YESHURUN$130,000
CHAZAK VEMATZ CONGREGATION INC$122,500
ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH$112,000
AF OF MOSDOS KENESES YESHURUN$111,000
CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL$110,000
LEV BEREL INC$100,000
KEREN HATZEDAKA INC$87,500
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.

US giving: 83% of grant dollars ($14M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($2.9M) is mapped below.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN FRIEMDS OF YISA BRACHA INC: $406k → 11%AMERICAN FRIEMDS OF YISA BRACHA INC: $380k → 11%AMERICAN FRIEMDS OF YISA BRACHA INC: $312k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEER HATORAH: $40k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEER HATORAH: $30k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YISA BRACHA INC: $225k → 11%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEER HATORAH: $28k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEER HATORAH: $12k → 8%American Friends of Beer Hatorah: $10k → 8%KEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $88k → 11%MISASKIM OF MARYLAND INC: $1k → 11%American Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc: $35k → 11%THE SHIDDUCH CENTER OF BALTIMORE: $6k → 19%THE SHIDDUCH CENTER OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $5k → 20%THE SHIDDUCH CENTER OF BALTIMORE: $5k → 19%TEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA: $3k → 20%KOLLEL OHEL LIFSHA INC: $5k → 11%DAAT TORAH: $20k → 20%KOLLEL OHEL LIFSHA INC: $4k → 11%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.

Beyond the US: 17% of all-years giving ($2.9M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Israel$2.9M · 5 grants
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Adar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Adar Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 82 repeat orgs$766k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -19% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
30

Total granted

$15M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-19%

Still filing today

41%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $586k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AF
    American Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +138% · 33% of their budget
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVEH ZION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $955k · revenue +13% · 32% of their budget
  • ZT
    ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH
    2× · 2023–2024 · $446k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • CG
    CONGREGATION GUR ARYEH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH LEARNING GROUP INC
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue -47%
  • VH
    VAAD HARABANIM LEINYANEI TZEDUKAH
    one grant, 2021 · $17k
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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3
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
4
American Friends of Amshinover Yeshiva Jerusalem Inc

Support of religious schools in Israel

International
5
Ziv Israel Association
—
6
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
8
Zichroin Rabbeini Meshilem Feiish Ztl Foundation
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9
Zichron Moshe Elihu Tzedoka Fund
Philanthropy
10
Rashbi Tehillim Incorporated
Religion
11
Ohr Olam Corp

publish religious books

Religion
12
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore Inc; the most unlike its peers is Camp Extreme D/B/a Project Extreme. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
31/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $2,940,150 · OtherIndividual grant recipientZICHRON MENACHEM INC: $1,800,000 · OtherZICHRON MENACHEM INCCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INC: $1,395,000 · OtherCONGREGATION AHAVAS TZDOKAH VCHESED INCYESHIVAS TORAS SIMCHA INC: $795,800 · OtherYESHIVAS TORAS SIMCHA INCCONGREGATION ZICHRON REFOEL INC: $689,800 · OtherCONGREGATION ZICHRON REFOEL INCAF OF MOSDOS KENESES YESHURUN: $492,200 · OtherZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH: $445,865 · Other+82 more: $3,463,916 · Other+82 moreNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $984,830 · ReligionNATIONAL SOCIETY…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVEH ZION: $955,000 · ReligionAMERICAN FRIENDS…LEV BEREL INC: $315,000 · ReligionLEV BEREL INC+9 more: $165,773 · Religion+9 moreAmerican Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc: $1,358,000 · Human ServicesAmerican F…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BE'ER HATORAHINC: $120,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN F…KEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $87,500 · Human ServicesKEREN HATZ…+5 more: $53,000 · Human ServicesSHEMIRAS SEDORIM INC: $150,000 · EducationBinyan Yisroel Inc: $125,000 · EducationTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $75,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF YESHIVAS RASHI INC: $20,000 · EducationPASSAIC HEBREW INSTITUTE: $16,900 · EducationMESIVTA KESSER TORAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 · Education+4 more: $13,550 · EducationCentral Fund of Israel: $110,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KAHILAS KAMENITZ: $108,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA: $20,656 · InternationalKEREN TORAH VCHESED: $18,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,000 · International+3 more: $11,900 · InternationalCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentJewish Teen Advancement Program Inc: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORCHOS CHAIM: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $150,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$12,022,731Religion$2,420,603Human Services$1,618,500Education$415,450International$278,556Youth Development$169,000Public Safety & Disaster$150,000

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 budgetAmerican Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc: $1,358,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS: $984,830 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVEH ZION: $955,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH: $445,865 over 2y, 15% of budgetLEV BEREL INC: $315,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetRABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC: $207,050 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSHEMIRAS SEDORIM INC: $150,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetBinyan Yisroel Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BE'ER HATORAHINC: $120,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KAHILAS KAMENITZ: $108,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetCAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME: $95,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKEREN HATZEDAKA INC: $87,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMOSDOT RASHI: $65,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMESORAH INC: $63,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetJewish Teen Advancement Program Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLMAHN ACHAI INC: $32,600 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetMACHON BETH MEIR: $25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHASDEI SARA TOYBA INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLEL SHAAREI SIMCHA: $20,656 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetDAAT TORAH: $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF YESHIVAS RASHI INC: $20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE JEWISH LEARNING GROUP INC: $18,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetKEREN TORAH VCHESED: $18,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPASSAIC HEBREW INSTITUTE: $16,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shidduch Center of Baltimore Inc: $16,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KOLL EL TORAS ZERAIM JERUSALEM INC: $15,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMESIVTA KESSER TORAH OF BALTIMORE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ORCHOS CHAIM: $14,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetYESHIVA IMREI BINA INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGEMACH CHESSED INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBRON YESHIVA IN JERUSALEM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKolel Ohel Lifsha Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEHILLAT NAAVA SHLACH LACHMECHA FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMERKAZ HATZEDAKA CORP: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORAH RELIEF SOCIETY INC EZRAS TORAH FUND: $5,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNETIVOS OLAM: $5,650 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetYESHIVA SHAAREI ARAZIM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BNOT TORAH INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTiferes Golda Inc: $4,750 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetROUSSO SPORTSWEAR FOUNDATION INC CO SANDY IZHAKOFF: $3,660 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YESHIVA TIFERES CHAIM INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds American Friends of Yisa Bracha Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HEBREW DAY SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NEVEH ZION ↗
  • Who funds ZICHRON TZVI ELIMELECH ↗
  • Who funds LEV BEREL INC ↗
  • Who funds RABBI CHAIM KOWALSKY MEMORIAL AHAVAS YISRAEL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEMIRAS SEDORIM INC ↗
  • Who funds ALVIN S MINTZES HATZALAH OF BALTIMORE INC ↗
  • Who funds Binyan Yisroel Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BE'ER HATORAHINC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KAHILAS KAMENITZ ↗
  • Who funds CAMP EXTREME D/B/A PROJECT EXTREME ↗
  • Who funds KEREN HATZEDAKA INC ↗
  • Who funds TORAH ORE SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds MOSDOT RASHI ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH INC ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Teen Advancement Program Inc ↗

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.

Associated Jewish Cha…Netzach FoundationThe Ojc FundJack Adjmi Family Fou…Jewish Communal FundDonors Fund IncFoundation for the Pr…The Jmg FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Hackerman Foundat…Marbeh Shalom Foundat…The Tzedakah Fund
Associated Jewish Charities of BaltimoreMD80.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Netzach Foundation · The Ojc Fund · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Foundation for the Preservation & Perpetuation of Torah Laws & Customs · The Jmg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · Marbeh Shalom Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Mesivta Kesser Torah of Baltimore Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get 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 · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Adar Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Adar 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.

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 131 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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