Funding search · EIN 751806018 · Santa Monica, CA

Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation

Name: Lucy & Isadore B Adelman Foundation grants, 2021–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

111
grants reported: $1.6M
total given: 2021–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2021–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Tides Foundation2 grants · $180,000
Courageous Conversation Global Foun1 grant · $150,000
Women Donors Network2 grants · $105,000
Bvm Capacity Building Inst2 grants · $100,000
Women Donor'S Network2 grants · $97,300
Intl Documentary Association1 grant · $85,000
Institute for Policy Studies2 grants · $75,000
Just Vision2 grants · $75,000
Just Vision2 grants · $70,000
Black Voters Matter Building Instit1 grant · $60,000

Giving over time

$236,990

2021

$267,185

2022

$564,877

2023

$547,200

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 111 grants.

$150,000
Courageous Conversation Global Foun · Woodland Hills, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$105,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$85,000
Intl Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$75,000
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$70,000
Women Donors Network · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Unrestricted
$62,300
Women Donor'S Network · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$60,000
Black Voters Matter Building Instit · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Unrestricted
$60,000
Just Vision · Washington Dc, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$60,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$50,000
Bvm Capacity Building Inst · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Unrestricted
$50,000
International Documentary Foundatio · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$50,000
Bvm Capacity Building Inst · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Unrestricted
$50,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington Dc, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$50,000
Just Vision · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$35,000
Women Donor'S Network · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$35,000
International Documentary Association · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$35,000
Women Donors Network · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$30,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$28,500
Ms Foundation for Women · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington Dc, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$25,000
Actblue · Somerville, MA · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Bvm Capacity Building Institute · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Just Vision · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$25,000
Institute for Policy Studies · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$25,000
Tides Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2021
Unrestricted
$20,000
Jewish Voice for Peace · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$20,000
Cristotsal · Burlington, VT · 2021
Unrestricted
$17,500
Center for Study of Political Graph · Culver City, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$15,000
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$15,000
Neo Philanthropy · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$10,000
Just Vision · Washington Dc, DC · 2024
Unrestricted
$10,000
If Not Now · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Imeu · Tustin, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
Ms Foundation for Women · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$10,000
America Peace for Now · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$7,500
Center for Study of Political Graph · Culver City, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$7,500
Cspg Foundation · 2022
Unrestricted
$6,600
Amusement Park Sports · Inglewood, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$6,000
Center for Cuban Studie · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,500
Institute for Public Accuracy · Oakland, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,500
Institute for Public Accuracy · Oakland, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,500
Smf Foundation Gc · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Imeu · Tustin, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Institute for Public Accuracy · Oakland, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Leonard Beerman Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Palast Investigative Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Women Make Movies · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,000
Curious Communications · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Higher Heights Leadership Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,000
Curios Communications · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Liberty Hill Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$5,000
Curios Communications · New York, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$5,000
Institute for Public Accuracy · Oakland, CA · 2021
Unrestricted
$5,000
Way To Win · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$3,600
Richland School Booster Club · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$3,500
National Network of Abortion Funds · Beaverton, OR · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,500
Laane · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,500
Public Concern Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,500
Arts and Cultural Bridge Foundation · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,500
Center for Cuban Studie · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,500
Public Concern Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,500
Wrrap · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,500
Ms Foundation for Women · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$2,000
Single Moms Planet · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,500
Just Detention International · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,500
Operation USA · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,500
Operation USA · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,100
New Israel Fund · Washington, DC · 2021
Unrestricted
$1,000
Inquilinos Unidos · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
New Israel Fund · Philadelphia, PA · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Just Detention International · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Just Detention International · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Venice Family Clinic · Venice, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Women'S Reproductive Rights Assistance League (Wrrap) · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Center for Cuban Studies · Brooklyn, NY · 2021
Unrestricted
$1,000
Operation USA · Los Angeles, CA · 2021
Unrestricted
$1,000
Venice Family Clinic · Venice, CA · 2021
Unrestricted
$750
San Francisco Mime Troupe · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$750
San Francisco Mime Troupe · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$550
San Francisco Mime Troupe · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$500
Vietnamese Veterans Against the War · Champaign, IL · 2024
Unrestricted
$500
Santa Monica High School Scholarshi · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$450
Pacific Education · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$380
Moma · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$300
Vietnamese Veterans Against the War · Champaign, IL · 2023
Unrestricted
$300
Vietnam Veterans Against the War · Champaign, IL · 2022
Unrestricted
$252
Whitney Museum of Amerian Art · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$250
Actor'S Gang · Culver City, CA · 2024
Unrestricted
$250
Actor'S Gang · Culver City, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$250
Planned Parenthood · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$250
The Actors' Gang · Culver City, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$250
Creating Hope International · Dearborn, MI · 2021
Unrestricted
$180
The Museum of Modern Art · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$140
Whitney Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$130
Lacma · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Unrestricted
$125
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$125
Brooklyn Museum · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.