· Private foundation
Adair Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION | $6,965 |
| THE THOMAS J BLOCKER SOCIETY TJBS FOUNDATION | $5,567 |
| MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE | $1,950 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $1,608 |
| ALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL | $1,544 |
| SIGMA PI PHITHE BOULE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LVMPD FOUNDATION | $700 |
| MARION B EARL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $600 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | $100 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Adair Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in NV; by stated purpose, 0%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue -10%
- ADALEXANDER DAWSON SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $3k
- YEYoung Eisner Scholars2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue -84%
Funded once
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE - THOMAS BLOCKER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $2k
- ADALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +6%
- MHMETROCENTER HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…
The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Create a world class center of excellence and innovation for medical education, patient care, and research that prepares nevada's physicians with the most advanced knowledge, treatments, and technologies while serviing heath care needs of…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
Our mission is to recognize the nation's profoundly gifted youth and support them holistically so they may reach their highest potential.
Facilitate gifts & grants for the benefit of the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education through charitable giving.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS PRESERVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER DAWSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Young Eisner Scholars ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adair Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adair Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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