Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Marta and Robert Adelson Family 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.
- $200k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $27,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $200k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $484k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $497k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $464k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $405k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $428k | 49% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $130k | 90% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thomas Jefferson University | $1,376,400 | 6 | 0% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $184,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Alliance for Decision Educationinc | $150,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $72,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $70,000 | 6 | n/a |
| The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology | $52,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Share Food Program | $41,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Overbrook School for the Blind | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation | $30,030 | 7 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($204k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Connelly Foundation · The Daniel B and Florence E Green Foundation · Future Standard Foundation · The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Inc · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The Brind Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation with peer funders
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About The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation
- How much does The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation give?
- The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $200,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (9%).
- Who are The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Thomas Jefferson University ($1.4M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($184k), Alliance for Decision Educationinc ($150k).
- Does The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Marta and Robert Adelson Family 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 Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main.
- Where is The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation based?
- The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation is based in PA.
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