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The Samuel S Adelsberg Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Samuel S Adelsberg Foundation Inc

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.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.4MReligion$186kHuman Services$49kInternational$23kRecreation & Sports$18kHealth$16kPhilanthropy$5kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BETH HATALMUD INC$50,000
NCSY$5,025
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 (FY17–21, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $25k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY: $10k → 17%KAREN ANIYIM: $250 → 20%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 23 repeat orgs$432k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
51

Total granted

$1.3M
$426k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+33%

Still filing today

17%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $62k · revenue +15%
  • HF
    HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +149%
  • YH
    YESHIVA HAR TORAH
    2× · 2021–2023 · $23k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $81k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MH
    MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +33%
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
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Friends of Yeshiva Beer Abraham

Furtherance of jewish education

Religion
4
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
5
American Friends of Oseh Chayil

To further jewish education in israel

Religion
6
Sherit Isroel
—
7
University of Judaism Foundation
—
8
American Friends of Yeshivat Hakotel Inc

To support religious, charitable, scientific, literary and/or educational programs

Education
9
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
—
10
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
11
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
12
American Friends of Minyan Avreichim

Support religious jewish instituions in furthering torah study

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Netiv Aryeh Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Baruch Umarpeh. 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

19 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. 19 of the 75 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SACKETT LAKE JEWISH CENTER: $171,000 · OtherSACKETT LAKE JEWISH CENTERGOMLEI CHESED: $162,680 · OtherGOMLEI CHESEDBETH HATALMUD INC: $140,000 · OtherBETH HATALMUD INCIndividual grant recipient: $126,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RIZHIN: $107,000 · OtherMESIVTA TIFERETH ISRAEL OF RIZHINHAFTR: $90,000 · OtherHAFTRIndividual grant recipient: $80,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHEBREW ACADEMY OF FIVE TOWNS AND ROCKAWAY: $79,000 · OtherKEHILLAS BAIS YEHUDA TZVI: $57,350 · OtherYESHIVA OF SOUTH SHORE: $52,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $52,000 · Other+52 more: $391,220 · Other+52 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $62,000 · ReligionETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $18,000 · Religion+2 more: $1,000 · ReligionCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 · InternationalJUST ONE LIFE INC: $13,600 · InternationalSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $7,900 · InternationalHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $35,000 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP DORA GOLDING: $17,595 · Recreation & SportsCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,000 · Health
Other$1,509,650Religion$81,000International$36,500Human Services$35,250Arts & Culture$25,000Recreation & Sports$17,595Health$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC: $62,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYESHIVA HAR TORAH: $22,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP DORA GOLDING: $17,595 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHAI LIFELINE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST ONE LIFE INC: $13,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC: $7,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTORAH ORE SEMINARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BARUCH UMARPEH: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetYESHIVA DERECH CHAIM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTOURO UNIVERSITY: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Puah Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEREN ANIYIM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYeshiva Tiferes Yisroel: $180 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.

  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MESORAH HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YESHIVA HAR TORAH ↗
  • Who funds ETZION FOUNDATION INC co H SILVERA ↗
  • Who funds CAMP DORA GOLDING ↗
  • Who funds CHAI LIFELINE INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
  • Who funds JUST ONE LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHAVEI HEVRON INSTITUTIONS INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Ojc FundFjcCross River Community…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Harvey and Shelli Dac…Ip FoundationCd FoundationStephen and Regina Sa…Caroline & Joseph S G…The Dennis Berman Fam…United Jewish Appeal-…
Jewish Communal FundNY28.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Fjc · Cross River Community Foundation · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Harvey and Shelli Dachs Charitable Foundation Trust · Ip Foundation · Cd Foundation · Stephen and Regina Savitsky Foundation · Caroline & Joseph S Gruss Life Monument Funds Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mesorah Heritage Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Samuel S Adelsberg Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Samuel S Adelsberg 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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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