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Adams Charitable Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE | $25,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE QUADRANGLE INC | $600 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH | $200 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
63 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 59 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- BTBRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE6× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue +28%
- AIACADEMY IN MANAYUNK5× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +136%
- SSSHIPLEY SCHOOL4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- IPINOVA PARKINSONS AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k
- TMTHE MIQUON SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide post-secondary education of excellence.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Quadrangle in care of Robert Hess. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 106 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK ↗
- Who funds Capital Hospice ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Hospital Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE MIQUON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Quadrangle in care of Robert Hess ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF NORTHERN VA ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUDINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PRISONER VISITATION AND SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds READING ALLOWED ↗
- Who funds PAWS AND AFFECTION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCK TO THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK FAMILY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The William Penn Foundation · Washington Forrest Foundation · Arlington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Act for Alexandria · Venable Foundation Inc · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Geary-OHara Family Foundation · Bergstrom Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Adams Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
- Capital Hospice — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.