· Private foundation
Adams Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOLGER SHAKESPEARE LIBRARY | $2,000,000 |
| NATIONAL CAPITAL POISON CENTER | $1,000,000 |
| PUBLIC RESOURCES ORG INC | $300,000 |
| RECLAIM THE RECORDS | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNational Capital Poison Center8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +14% · 28% of their budget
- NGNational Gallery of Art3× · 2017–2021 · $2.1M · revenue +57%
- TFTHE FREEBSD FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +58% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +11%- NHNATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $800k
- IHINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500k · 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.
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.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Brave New Software is dedicated to keeping the Internet open and decentralized. We build open source software tools that helps users access an uncensored internet, and create a more open and protected information infrastructure for us all.
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
The Freenet Project develops and maintains free, open-source software that enables decentralized communication and information sharing, with the goal of promoting privacy, freedom of expression, and access to information for the public…
Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Finreglab is a d.c.-based research organization working at the intersection of financial innovation and public policy. our mission is to advance technology and data use to help people and small businesses manage their financial lives,…
National taxpayers union foundation (ntuf) provides crucial, impactful research and analysis showing americans how taxes, government spending, and regulations affect them. with our unique combination of policy expertise, outreach know-how,…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 21 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 National Capital Poison Center ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE FREEBSD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR OTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Reclaim The Records ↗
- Who funds INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLICRESOURCEORG INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNET SYSTEMS CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNGSTOWN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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