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The Adler Family Foundation Inc

Savannah, GA · EIN 58-2657821. Reported 63 grants totalling $117,500 to 33 recipients across tax years 2022-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$117,500granted, 2022-2025
33recipients, as named on its returns
53%of grantees funded again the next year
$19,162assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Adler Family Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $2,500; the smallest was $250 and the largest $12,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
17 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
38 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
7 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St John's ChurchSavannah, GA$17,500332024
Trustees Garden ClubSavannah, GA$12,500112022
Savh College of Art & DesignSavannah, GA$10,000222023
Telfair Museum of ArtSavannah, GA$6,500332024
Savannah Music FestivalSavannah, GA$5,500332025
Historic Savannah FoundationSavannah, GA$5,000332025
Savannah College of Art and Design IncSavannah, GA$5,000112025
Skidaway Audubon IncSavannah, GA$5,000432025
St John's Episcopal ChurchSavannah, GA$5,000112025
Georgia Historical SocietySavannah, GA$3,500442025
Georgia Trust Historic PreservationAtlanta, GA$3,500332024
Savannah PhiliharmonicSavannah, GA$3,500332024
Savannah Tree Foundation IncSavannah, GA$3,500222025
East Savannah United IncSavannah, GA$2,500112025
Independent Presbyterian BldgSavannah, GA$2,500112022
Keep Nassau Beautiful IncFernandina Beach, FL$2,500322025
Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyAtlanta, GA$2,500112023
National Trust for Historic PreservationWashington, DC$2,500222023
North Florida Land TrustJacksonville, FL$2,500332025
Ogeechee River KeeperSavannah, GA$2,500332024
Savannah Philharmonic CorporationSavannah, GA$2,500112025
Alzheimers AssnSavannah, GA$2,000222023
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United StatesWashington, DC$1,500112025
Savannah Antiques and Architecture WeekendSavannah, GA$1,500112024
Davenport HouseSavannah, GA$1,250332024
Nscda in GeorgiaSavannah, GA$1,000112024
Ogeechee-Canoochee RiverkeeperSavannah, GA$1,000112025
Senior CitizensSavannah, GA$1,000112022
Green-Meldrim HouseSavannah, GA$500112024
Keepers of Historic Green-Meldrim House IncSavannah, GA$500112025
Log Pile Surf Contests LLCFolley Beach, SC$500112024
Tim Tebow Foundation IncPonte Vedra Beach, FL$500112025
Tybee Clean Beach VolunteersTybee Island, GA$250112022

16 of 33 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 53%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 16 grants to individuals totalling $45,500 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Arts & Culture
13 grants
Environment
12 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Education
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202216$37,500$1,000
202317$29,500$1,000
202413$20,500$1,000
202517$30,000$1,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

91% of its giving went to organizations in Georgia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

Georgia
$108K
Florida
$6K
District of Columbia
$4K
South Carolina
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsThe Savannah Community Foundation11 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program9 shared recipientsThe Blackbaud Giving Fund9 shared recipientsCharities Aid Foundation America9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Georgia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Adler Family Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 427 Bull Street, Savannah, GA, 31401. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 58-2657821 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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