How much does The Adelaar Foundation give?

The Adelaar Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 98 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Adelaar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (55%), Religion (21%), Health (5%).

Who are The Adelaar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Animal Rescue Foundation Inc ($70k), Farm Sanctuary Inc ($70k), Humane Society of Westchester Inc ($50k).

Does The Adelaar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Adelaar 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 Adelaar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Verizon Foundation, American Express Foundation, The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund.

Where is The Adelaar Foundation based?

The Adelaar Foundation is based in NY.

The Adelaar Foundation

The Adelaar Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Adelaar 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.

$400

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$350

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$531kReligion$199kHealth$47kHuman Services$44kFood & Nutrition$35kPublic Safety & Disaster$23kPublic Benefit$20kInternational$14kOther$0

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$350

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP	$350
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$50

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$874k · 105 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

105 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105

Total granted

$874k

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+5%

Still filing today

67%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesPublic BenefitHealthEducationReligionOther

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

FS
FARM SANCTUARY INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +25%
TR
THE ROLLING DOG FARM
8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +156%
MH
MID HUDSON ANIMAL AID INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +26%

Funded once

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY OF WESTCHESTER INC
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -15%
RC
RESTORATION CHURCH
one grant, 2018 · $12k
MS
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2019 · $5k

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.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals

All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals

Global Animal Partnership

Animals

Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals

Defenders of Animal Rights Inc

Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.

Animals

Humane World for Animals International

HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…

Animals

Hope for China Dogs Rescue

At Hope for China Dogs, we are committed to combating the cruel and inhumane practice of the dog meat trade in China. We believe that every dog deserves to live a life free from pain and suffering, and we are dedicated to rescuing and…

Animals

Animal Rescue Force Inc

Established in 1974, the organization's mission is to find responsible homes for dogs and cats and to encourage all dog and cat owners to spay and neuter their pets.

Animals

Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…

Animals

Paws - Preservation of Animal Welfare & Safety Inc

The organization is a no-kill animal rescue. paws saves lives and prevents suffering by implementing the no-kill philosophy through aggressive spay/neuter programs for owned and unowned animals. this is accomplished by rescuing, fostering,…

Animals

Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…

Animals

Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Rolling Dog Farm. 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

78 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. 78 of the 119 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/78

Grantees still filing

55/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$472,500Other$369,330Religion$34,200Human Services$31,500Public Benefit$23,000Health$18,520International$10,828

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

Verizon FoundationNJ17.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Sidewalk Angels Inc · The Dianne & David Stern Foundation · Raffiani Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Petsmart Charities Inc

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 Adelaar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Adelaar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

6report 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

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home