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The Adela &Lawrence Elow 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.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsOther
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
FY2025still arriving2$13k0%
FY20245$50k0%
FY202320$218k15%
FY202220$175k30%
FY202115$45k33%
FY20206$69k0%
FY201915$80k33%
FY201817$104k47%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$685kPublic Safety & Disaster$41kInternational$32kHealth$20kCivil Rights$12kEducation$8kHuman Services$3kPublic Benefit$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, 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 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($478k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mabel Mercer Foundation Inc: $232,300 over 9y, 29% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $26,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $12,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Songbook Association Inc: $12,200 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNorthern Westchester Hospital Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Israel Defense Forces: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $8,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Performance Zone Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $7,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Israel Public Affairs Committee: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $3,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Yahad - in Unum Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGuiding Eyes for the Blind Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBedford Village Chowder and Marching Club Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMount Kisco Child Care Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association of Zoo Veterinarians Co: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCopland House Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe International Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia Foundation Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVocal Ease Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 27.

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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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation

How much does The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation give?
The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $12,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (82%), Public Safety & Disaster (5%), International (4%).
Who are The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Mabel Mercer Foundation Inc ($232k), Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ($27k), Simon Wiesenthal Center Inc ($12k).
Does The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Adela &Lawrence Elow 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 The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation based?
The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation is based in NY.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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