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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.

$396k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$1.2MHealth$438kPublic Safety & Disaster$305kRecreation & Sports$141kHuman Services$95kReligion$86kPhilanthropy$65kAnimals$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k49 grants · $172k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$5,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$10,000
FOUNDATION FOR APPLIED TECHNICAL EDUCATION$10,000
PLAINFIELD CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH$10,000
GLADY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$10,000
MIRACLE 4 MELANIE$5,000
CHILDREN'S CANCER FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA$5,000
CORNERSTONES - CYNTHIA ADLER$5,000
ADAPTIVE ROWING ANNAPOLIS$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BOYS TOWN: $25 → 12%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER: $5k → 6%KIDS WISH NETWORK: $25 → 12%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 9%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 9%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $25k → 6%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $5k → 9%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $20k → 6%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $5k → 8%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA: $10k → 6%IMAGINATION LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $185k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $100k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $38k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $25k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $25k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $20k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $10k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $10k → 6%CAPITAL CARING: $2k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
SC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 22 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$2.1M
$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+75%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $234k 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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitAnimalsHealthEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CG
    COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $195k · revenue +79%
  • TF
    THE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $129k · revenue +455%
  • TS
    The Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia
    3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • RW
    Ride With Pride Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +75%
  • MB
    MANASSAS BALLET THEATRE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

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,…

Animals
2
Warrior Canine Connection Inc

Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.

Human Services
3
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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4
Animal Welfare League of Arlington

Improving the lives of animals and people by providing resources, care, and protection.

Animals
5
Pets for Vets Inc

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…

Public Benefit
6
Vcu Health Tappahannock Hospital

To deliver important healthcare services with exceptional quality and patient-centered care.

Health
7
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.

Public Benefit
8
Leashes of Valor

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…

Public Benefit
9
Hero Dogs Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Children's Hospital

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…

Health
11
City Wildlife Inc

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…

Education
12
The George Washington Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 79 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/48
Grantees still filing
21/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JEFFERSON TRUST: $650,000 · OtherTHE JEFFERSON TRUSTACE SCHOLARSHIP AND TRAINING: $273,500 · OtherACE SCHOLARSHIP AND TRAININGUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAVirginia Ready Initiative: $100,000 · OtherVirginia Ready InitiativeFOUNDATION FOR APPLIED TECHNICAL EDUCATION INC: $70,000 · Other+48 more: $190,376 · Other+48 moreCapital Hospice: $414,000 · Human ServicesCapital HospiceThe Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia: $55,400 · Human ServicesThe Shepherd's Center o…+6 more: $30,050 · Human Services+6 moreCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $194,700 · Public BenefitCOAST GUAR…Leadership Institute: $7,925 · Public Benefit+4 more: $17,450 · Public Benefit+4 moreTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 · Community ImprovementWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $99,999 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationPendleton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc: $5,000 · EducationCORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC: $60,000 · PhilanthropySO WHAT ELSE INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLEAR FUND: $5,000 · Philanthropy4 PAWS RESCUE TEAM INC: $5,000 · AnimalsPET RESCUE BY JUDY INC: $5,000 · AnimalsWOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 · AnimalsPacific Wildlife Care: $5,000 · AnimalsOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC: $5,000 · Animals
Other$1,383,876Human Services$499,450Public Benefit$220,075Community Improvement$129,000Education$114,999Philanthropy$70,000Animals$25,000

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 budgetCapital Hospice: $414,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $194,700 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FAIRFAX COUNTY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $129,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetVirginia Ready Initiative: $100,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $99,999 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPLIED TECHNICAL EDUCATION INC: $70,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetCORNERSTONE CRAFTSMAN INC: $60,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Shepherd's Center of Northern Virginia: $55,400 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetNational Council for Adoption: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGLADYS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetLeadership Institute: $7,925 over 5y, 0.0% of budget4 PAWS RESCUE TEAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPET RESCUE BY JUDY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOLF TRAP ANIMAL RESCUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRide With Pride Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VIRGINIA GOVERNORS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPendleton County Convention & Visitors Bureau Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEN TEN LIFE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetIMAGINATION LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $4,550 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBlossoms For Pink: $3,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $2,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION OF HOPE BOLIVIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LINKS TRUST: $1,505 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASONIC HOME OF VIRGINIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington Area Animal Adoption Group: $1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SEVERN RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS WISH NETWORK INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Community Foundat…Clark-Winchcole Found…The Bank of America C…Verizon FoundationAmerican Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
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
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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How do I get to The Adler Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Adler Foundation Inc 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 79 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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