David Adelman
Profile Summary
David Adelman is associated with the real-estate industry. RTB estimates his net worth at ~$2.3B. RTB
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR identifies David J. Adelman as a reporting person with 135 insider filings, including filings connected to FS Credit Income Fund, Delta Air Lines, Wheels Up Experience, AIB Acquisition Corp. and FS Investment Corp IV. SEC EDGAR Recent filings include Form 4 ownership reports in 2024 and 2023 and a Form 3 initial ownership report filed March 15, 2024; Form 3 reports initial insider ownership, while Form 4 reports changes in an insider's ownership. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
ProPublica's Form 990 records show that the Adelman Family Foundation in Free Union, Virginia reported $407,972 in assets, $18,312 in revenue, $27,482 in expenses and $27,500 in grants paid for tax year 2023. ProPublica 990
Political Activity
FEC filings show at least 100 federal contributions by Adelman in the most recent 100 contributions on file, totaling $83,166.54; those sampled filings cover December 30, 2023 through July 31, 2026. FEC The sampled contributions included $39,945.66 to Democratic recipients, $30,270.88 to recipients with an unknown party classification and $12,950 to Republican recipients. FEC The largest named recipients in the sample were Team McCormick ($10,000), Torres for Congress ($7,800), the Real Estate Roundtable Political Action Committee (REALPAC) ($7,500), Donald Norcross for Congress ($7,000) and the DCCC ($6,600). FEC
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
Foundations are matched to a person by name, not by trustee records — so a same-surname family foundation can land here in error. Every entity below links to its full IRS filing; if one doesn’t belong, tell us at hello@skylarkcreations.com and we’ll pull it.
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 691 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $83,166.54.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.