How much does Adams Charitable Foundation give?

Adams Charitable Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $50,800 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Adams Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (32%), Health (13%), International (13%).

Who are Adams Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Bridges to Independence ($79k), International Rescue Committee INC ($25k), American Friends Service Committee ($12k).

Does Adams Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Adams Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Adams Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The William Penn Foundation, Washington Forrest Foundation, Arlington Community Foundation.

Where is Adams Charitable Foundation based?

Adams Charitable Foundation is based in PA.

Adams Charitable Foundation

Adams Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$51k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Housing & Shelter$81kHealth$34kInternational$33kEducation$28kCivil Rights$13kPublic Benefit$11kFood & Nutrition$8kHuman Services$6kOther$0

02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k3 grants · $6k
$10k–50k2 grants · $45k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$230k · 63 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$230k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+32%

Still filing today

65%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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BRIDGES TO INDEPENDENCE
6× · 2018–2023 · $79k · revenue +28%
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ACADEMY IN MANAYUNK
5× · 2018–2022 · $10k · revenue +136%
SS
SHIPLEY SCHOOL
4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +5%

Funded once

UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
IP
INOVA PARKINSONS AND MOVEMENT DISORDERS CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $3k
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THE MIQUON SCHOOL
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +8%

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.

04Its field

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.

Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education

University of New Haven

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…

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Furman University

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.

Education

The George Washington University

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…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

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…

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United States Naval Institute

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.

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Point Park University

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…

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

47/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$92,331Housing & Shelter$79,300International$30,900Education$26,500Human Services$11,550Health$10,600Arts & Culture$3,900

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.

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.

The William Penn FoundationPA20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Adams Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home