· Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT | $5,225 |
| HELPING HANDS | $4,225 |
| PLUS ENDOWMENT | $3,725 |
| PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM | $3,225 |
| CARING HEARTS FUND | $3,225 |
| PARISHENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $3,225 |
| REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER | $3,225 |
| TOMORROW'S HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC | $2,725 |
| HENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD | $2,425 |
| CASA | $2,425 |
| ABLE FARMS | $2,225 |
| CARL PERKINS CENTER | $2,225 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $2,225 |
| EASTONS ANGELS | $2,225 |
| HENRY COUNTY 4-H BUCKS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- PEPLUS ENDOWMENT9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +791%
- PDPARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +73% · 26% of their budget
- THTOMORROWS HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- HCHenry County Historical Societyone grant, 2018 · $3k
- MCMedical Center Pharmacyone grant, 2017 · $396
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.
To support families in need
Food distribution to the needy
Provide free services that include pregnancy testing & ultrasound readings and to educate and support women, who find themselves in "crisis" pregnancies, about the developing life inside them and to love them and their unborn child through…
Food pantry
Crisis Pregnancy Center
Providing food to the needy
Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.
To enhance the health of all citizens of henry county through philanthropic support of the programs and services of henry county medical center. emphasis is placed on wellness education, community outreach, scholorships for students…
Mary's house is a non-profit pregnancy care center funded by contributions, offering any pregnant woman early access to medical care, emotional and spiritual encouragement. mary's house facilitates resources already available in the…
The henry county pregnancy care center is committed to assisting women to carry to term, by providing emotional support and practical assistance,through the provision of gods people and the community at large.
Donate toy cars to local hospitals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Hope Youth Center and the most unlike its peers is Paris Downtown Boxing Gym. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 20 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.
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.
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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 Family 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.
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.
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