· Private foundation
The Fred August and Adele Wolpers Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA | $2,000 |
| SUNRISE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Fred August and Adele Wolpers Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in NJ; by stated purpose, 33%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IPIsraeli Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Inc4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +176% · 50% of their budget
- RCRABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA4× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +179%
- SSPECTRUM3602× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- LTLARGER THAN LIFE USA INCone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -23%
- FOFRIENDS OF ISRAEL JEWISH DEFENSEone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ATAMERICAN TECHION SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
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…
To support individuals with developmental challenges and exceptional abilities to achieve their full potential.
The school trains advanced talmudic scholars, enabling them to become high level teachers and religious leaders in israel and the united states using specific methodology combining traditional talmudic study with innovative learning…
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
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.
The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ↗
- Who funds LARGER THAN LIFE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Israeli Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RABBINICAL COLLEGE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM360 ↗
- Who funds THE GLORIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FOWA Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MYCHILD'SCANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR COUNTRY PUBLIC ARTS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Saint Elizabeth University ↗
- Who funds THE RABINOWITZ INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Apostles' House ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Natan Blutinger & Sara Blutinger Charitable Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fred August and Adele Wolpers Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fred August and Adele Wolpers Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rabbinical College of America: 5% of income from government
- Saint Elizabeth University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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