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The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $800 → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $400 → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 17%MOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $500 → 9%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 9%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$815k · 23 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
17

Total granted

$815k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
0%

Still filing today

70%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitReligionOther
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

  • TM
    THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $232k · revenue +234% · 29% of their budget
  • DH
    Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
    6× · 2019–2024 · $27k · revenue +15%
  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $12k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • NW
    NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +14%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +11%
  • HI
    HIAS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
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
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
2
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
3
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
4
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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6
Hospice Care Network

Our mission is to enable persons to live with peace and dignity in a caring environment during the final stages of life by offering care and comfort to both them and to those whom they share their lives.

Human Services
7
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
8
Lenox Hill Hospital

Lenox hill hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future generations…

Health
9
Northwell Healthcare Inc

Northwell healthcare inc. coordinates policy making and strategic planning by providing advisory and administrative support services to affiliated health care organizations within northwell health; whose mission is to improve the health of…

Health
10
Northwell Health Inc

Northwell health is the parent company of a fully integrated health system that is committed to promote clinical care, health education, conduct biomedical research, and caring for the community regardless of ability to pay.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Yad Vashem Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Performance Zone 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

30 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. 30 of the 41 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/30
Grantees still filing
23/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND ARTS: $397,190 · OtherCARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC AND ARTSTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $232,300 · OtherTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $26,604 · Other+13 more: $64,600 · Other+13 moreDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $26,800 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $12,400 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SONGBOOK ASSOCIATION INC: $12,200 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $8,900 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,750 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $9,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $7,500 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalHIAS INC: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL PUBLIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: $3,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $1,800 · InternationalNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $790 · HealthSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $7,800 · EducationWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,400 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT KISCO CHILD CARE CENTER: $500 · Human ServicesJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,250 · Public Benefit
Other$720,694Arts & Culture$62,050International$31,800Health$15,790Education$7,800Human Services$3,900Public Benefit$3,250

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 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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 1y, 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
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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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 →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adela &Lawrence Elow Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 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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