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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 FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$221kArts & Culture$220kYouth Development$150kInternational$102kFood & Nutrition$43kHuman Services$42kPhilanthropy$10kScience & Tech$6kOther$397k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $153k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$27,500
YALE UNIVERSITY$27,000
OVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$17,500
MOORE COLLEGE OF ART$16,000
PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS$15,000
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY$15,000
SHARE FOOD PROGRAM$14,900
EMILY'S ENTOURAGE$10,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FOUNDATION$10,000
PRINT CENTER NEW YORK$7,800
THE WISTAR INSTITUTE$5,000
EDUCATION LAW CENTER$5,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$5,000
WOMEN'S WAY$5,000
THE FUND FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE: $500 → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2k → 7%ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%PROJECT HOME: $23k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $1k → 22%PROJECT HOME: $500 → 22%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $8k → 22%WOMEN'S WAY: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
AL
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 43 repeat orgs$205k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
37

Total granted

$2.4M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+34%

Still filing today

79%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +45%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +781%
  • CF
    Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc
    7× · 2019–2025 · $120k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • RA
    RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +44%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $24k · revenue +56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
3
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Philadelphia Contemporary

We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…

Human Services
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture
8
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc

To support education and research at college, university, and research libraries.

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Moore College of Art and Design. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr20%18%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr20%70%20–35yr13%6%35–55yr13%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
12%
4,738/38,238

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 91 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,376,400 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY+11 more — $91,580 · Education+11 moreMOORE COLLEGE OF ART — $81,000 · OtherMOORE COLLEGE OF AR…YALE UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $30,030 · OtherFREE LIBRARY OF PHI…JEFFERSON OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT — $28,500 · OtherJEFFERSON OFFICE OF…YALE UNIVERSITY — $27,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL — $26,750 · OtherTHE PHILADELPHIA SC…Individual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…RAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherRAYMOND AND RUTH PE…MOORE COLLGE OF ART — $20,000 · OtherPROJECT HOME — $25,250 · OtherPROJECT HOME+36 more — $96,575 · Other+36 moreCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc — $120,000 · HealthCystic Fi…THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $52,200 · HealthTHE WISTA…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $24,000 · HealthTHOMAS JE…+6 more — $24,800 · Health+6 morePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $184,300 · Arts & CulturePHILADELP…PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $17,500 · Arts & CulturePHILADELP…THE BARNES FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $10,640 · Arts & CultureALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $72,700 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $21,700 · InternationalIMPACTISRAEL INC — $7,500 · InternationalSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $41,900 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $600 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,467,980Other$455,105Health$221,000Arts & Culture$219,940Youth Development$150,000International$101,900Food & Nutrition$42,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $1,376,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART — $184,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR DECISION EDUCATIONINC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc — $120,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $72,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY — $52,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE FOOD PROGRAM — $41,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOVERBROOK SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $30,030 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL — $26,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOME — $25,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAYMOND AND RUTH PERELMAN JEWISH DAY SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS INC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $21,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC — $17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElevate 215 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH — $9,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — $9,580 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARNES FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACTISRAEL INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $6,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS WAY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ROCK SCHOOL FOR DANCE EDUCATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA RESOURCES COUNCIL INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPlease Touch Museum — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEducation Law Center - PA — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH CENTER OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC — $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOROT THE CENTER FOR NEW JEWISH LEARNING — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF COMPASS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KUPAT HA'IR — $720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilabundance — $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The William Penn Foun…Lindback Cr & Mf Foun…The Saramar Charitabl…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…Connelly FoundationThe Daniel B and Flor…Future Standard Found…The Philadelphia Cult…Jewish Federation of …United Way of Greater…The Brind Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA40.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Marta and Robert Adelson Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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