New York · Nonprofit
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,472,903 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,404,354). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $26M
- Funders on record
- 139
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $171M
What Anti-Defamation League Foundation does
Mission
See schedule othe adl foundation helps promote the mission of adl through the maintenance and, where appropriate, prudent investment of the endowments, trusts, philanthropic funds, real estate and other assets held by the adl foundation as set forth in the adl foundation's certificate of incorporation. These assets and their proceeds are to be used to support the mission of adl.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Support to other charities - in furtherance of the Anti-Defamation League Foundation's (adl foundation) primary exempt purpose, specific grants totaling $12,821,625 were made directly from the adl foundation to the anti-defamation league (adl).
$12,821,625 spentof which $12,821,625 as grants$267,617 earned by the program96% of program spendingPublic awareness - manages awareness through published materials, national and regional websites, social media, social media marketing, email marketing, direct mail campaigns, online video and public relations campaigns, communications, and managing relationships with the media. Keeps constituents informed of breaking news and issues involved with adl's work. Prepares visual and print materials on adl issues, goals and objectives; writes, edits and produces materials (reports, brochures, invitations newsletters, publications); and handles special projects such as exhibits and events.
$480,487 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,302,112.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $127M to $147M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
58% of ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jonathan A Greenblatt
CEO & national director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 61 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $2.6M.
31 of 139 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6.0M from 35 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia). These are real filings, and they are not money ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 139 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
76% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 41% · 2019 44% · 2020 42% · 2021 27% · 2022 28% · 2023 16% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
46% of ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
74% of ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.8M that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 25 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Anti-Defamation League · exempt
- Adlf Common Fund · exempt
- Anti-Defamation League - Israel · exempt
- Jlens · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trust (14) · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION?
- ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 139 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,472,903 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($6,404,354). 84 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 139 organizations giving $22,472,903 in grants to ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION, 84 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $6,404,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 139 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing