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The Adler Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $172k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN | $60,000 |
| ACE SCHOLARSHIP AND TRAINING | $38,500 |
| COAST GUARD FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA | $25,400 |
| CAPITAL CARING | $25,000 |
| PLAINFIELD CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GLADY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED TECHNICAL EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SO WHAT ELSE INC | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MIRACLE 4 MELANIE | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $499k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 42 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CGCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +79%
- TFTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $129k · revenue +455%
- TSThe Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $100k
- RWRide With Pride Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +75%
- MBMANASSAS BALLET THEATREone grant, 2022 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
Improving the lives of animals and people by providing resources, care, and protection.
Pets for Vets enriches the lives of veterans by creating a life-changing Super Bond with expertly selected and trained shelter or rescue pets. It provides ongoing expert support to ensure a reciprocal and thriving partnership at no cost to…
To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
The goals of City Wildlife are to rescue sick, orphaned, and injured wild animals and return them to the wild; to promote the enjoyment of and harmonious co-existence with native wildlife; and to protect the District of Columbias wild…
The mission of the george washington foundation is to enhance the public understanding of the lives, values, and legacies of george washington, fielding and betty washington lewis and their family members, particularly in the broader…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Pendleton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 41% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 79 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds CORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC ↗
- Who funds The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia ↗
- Who funds National Council for Adoption ↗
- Who funds GLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds PET RESCUE BY JUDY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
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- Who funds Ride With Pride Inc ↗
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- Who funds MIRACLE 4 MELANIE INC ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS RESCUE TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Pendleton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc ↗
- Who funds TEN TEN LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
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- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving 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 The Adler Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
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.
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