· Private foundation
Adams County Bar Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID PENN LEGAL SERVICES | $18,200 |
| BAR ASSOCIATION LAW DAY | $4,500 |
| THE DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY | $3,300 |
| UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 6% of Adams County Bar Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in PA; by stated purpose, 94%.
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 +24% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MLMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES3× · 2023–2025 · $39k · revenue +24%
- DDDWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY8× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +101%
- GCGETTYSBURG COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- ACADAMS COUNTY COURT OF COMMON PLEASone grant, 2018 · $6k
- MPMID PEN LEGAL SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $5k
- YOYE OLDE SULPHUR SPA HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
The mission of the adamstown library is to maintain and improve the quality of life in our community by providing access to cultural, intellectual, and informational resources and programs to promote life-long learning for all ages. the…
The gettysburg adams chamber of commerce supports and strengthens our members and the adams county area by promoting diverse economic opportunities through advocacy, building relationships, providing timely information and developing…
The adams county economic development corporation is a private, not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing countywide economic development services to benefit the citizens of adams county. the organization's programs are designed to…
Incorporated in 1993, the Adams County Arts Council is a nonprofit organization which supports the arts throughout Adams County, Pennsylvania. ACACs mission is to cultivate an arts-rich community. ACACs primary goals are to provide high…
To preserve areas of scenic, natural, geological, biological or historical importance in adams county, pennsylvania, through acquisition of fee simple title or conservation easements on important open space lands.
Services include providing public with educational resources including research, maps, photos, and historical news of adams county, nebraska.
To enhance, retain, and attract commercial, industrial, and agricultural growth, development, and diversity within adams county and its cities, towns and ports.
The american constitution society for law and policy (acs) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan legal organization. through a diverse nationwide network of progressive lawyers, law students, judges, scholars, advocates, and many others,…
To share the history of the great american adams family, to promote their ideals of citizenship and selfless public service, and to inspire future generations to serve their communities and our nation.
To inspire, unite, and empower the people of adams county to reach their full human potential.
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 18 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 MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT D EISENHOWER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ADAMS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMS COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
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: Adams County Community Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adams County Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams County Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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