The Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation
Boston, MA · EIN 04-3492171. Reported 109 grants totalling $6,460,500 to 54 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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 Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $1,150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geffen Playhouse Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $1,547,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brentwood School | Los Angeles, CA | $1,350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| No Limits Theater Group Inc | Culver City, CA | $785,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Friends of Mcgill University Inc | New York, NY | $500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Windward School | Los Angeles, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $325,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish Institute for Liberal Values | Columbus, OH | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Windward School Innovation Campaign | Los Angeles, CA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mdprc Inc | New Haven, CT | $175,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| California Community Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $67,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Committee | Philadelphia, PA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mitzvah Matters | Los Angeles, CA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hualalai 'ohana Foundation | Kailuakona, HI | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Pulse Ensemble Theatre | New York, NY | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation | Granada Hills, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Andrew Mcdonough B Foundation | New York, NY | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cedars-Sinai | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Children Mending Hearts | Sherman Oaks, CA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The UCLA Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Washington Institute for Near East Policy | Washington, DC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Present Now | Santa Monica, CA | $23,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Communities in Schools of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beauty Bus Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $18,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The One Step Closer Foundation | Houston, TX | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Alzheimer Disease & Related Disorders Association | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | New York, NY | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City Year Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Heart of Los Angeles (hola) | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Saban Community Clinic | Los Angeles, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Rape Foundation | Santa Monica, CA | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Friends of Givat Haviva Inc | New York, NY | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbia Grammar & Prepatory School | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Facing History and Ourselves Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| In a Perfect World | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jewish Federation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Just Keep Livin Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Maccabi USA Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Social Giving Network Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Susan G Komen Foundation | Dallas, TX | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Teach for America Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Just Keep Alive Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Keaukaha One Youth Development | Hilo, HI | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kiss the Ground | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Phase One | Santa Monica, CA | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social Emotional Learning Alliance (SEL4CA) | Ventura, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | Memphis, TN | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Bold Foundation Inc | Sparks, NV | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Boltz Foundation | Fort Mill, SC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| US Holocaust Memorial Musem | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Valkyrie Gives | Sedalia, CO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lighthouse Medical Missions | Santa Monica, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| First Place for Youth | Oakland, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
27 of 54 (50%) 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 71%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 75 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $1,127,750 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 30 | $1,109,250 | $5,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $2,769,500 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,454,000 | $10,000 |
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
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 73% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
- 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.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Adi and Jerry Greenberg Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Bowditch Dewey 75 Federal Street, Boston, MA, 02110. 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.
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