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Adams Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$44k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$90kHealth$31kFood & Nutrition$26kEducation$24kYouth Development$24kRecreation & Sports$23kCrime & Legal$23kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,725
Median grant
1
States reached
$274k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%PARISHENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $6k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%The Shed CO HENRY CO SHERIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%The Shed CO HENRY CO SHERIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $5k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 16%HENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $4k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $4k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $4k → 16%PARISHENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%CARING HEARTS FUND: $3k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $3k → 16%HELPING HANDS: $3k → 16%REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 16%Henry County Historical Society: $3k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $3k → 16%CARING HEARTS FUND: $3k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $3k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%Henry County Helping Hand Inc: $3k → 16%CARING HEARTS FUND: $3k → 16%PLUS ENDOWMENT: $3k → 16%PARISHENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $3k → 16%HENRY COUNTY HELPING HANDS INC: $3k → 16%REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%Henry County Helping Hand Inc: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%CARING HEARTS FUND: $3k → 16%REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $3k → 16%PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $3k → 16%TOMORROW'S HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $3k → 16%TOMORROW'S HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $3k → 16%TOMORROW'S HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $3k → 16%TOMORROW'S HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 17 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
2

Total granted

$276k
$3k

Still filing today

41%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • PE
    PLUS ENDOWMENT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +791%
  • PD
    PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +73% · 26% of their budget
  • TH
    TOMORROWS HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • HC
    Henry County Historical Society
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • MC
    Medical Center Pharmacy
    one grant, 2017 · $396
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.

1
Henry County Christmas Cheer

To support families in need

Human Services
2
Hickory County Cares

Food distribution to the needy

Human Services
3
Pregnancy Help Center of Madison County

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…

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4
Hope House of Cocke County

Food pantry

Human Services
5
The Elizabeth House Maternity Home

Crisis Pregnancy Center

Human Services
6
Henderson County Food Pantry

Providing food to the needy

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7
Hope Ministries of Northern Kentucky Inc

Hope ministries helps low income families in northern kentucky with emergency food assistance, clothing, household items, and used toys.

Human Services
8
Paris-Henry Co Healthcare Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
Marys Houseof Louisiana Inc

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…

Health
10
Henry County Pregnancy Care Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Hearts 4 Henry
Philanthropy
12
Henrys Haul Inc

Donate toy cars to local hospitals

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Real Hope Youth Center; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPT: $35,225 · OtherTHE SHED CO HENRY COUNTY SHERRIFF'S DEPTHELPING HANDS: $23,225 · OtherHELPING HANDSCARING HEARTS FUND: $22,225 · OtherCARING HEARTS FUNDFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $14,725 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHHENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD: $13,225 · OtherHENRY COUNTY RESCUE SQUADThe Shed CO HENRY CO SHERIFF'S DEPT: $10,000 · OtherThe Shed CO HENRY CO SHERIFF'S DEPTHenry County Helping Hand Inc: $9,000 · OtherHenry County Helping Hand IncCARL PERKINS CENTER: $8,225 · OtherCARL PERKINS CENTER+5 more: $10,121 · Other+5 moreTOMORROWS HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $18,225 · HealthTOMORROWS HO…Easton's Angels Inc: $12,725 · HealthEaston's Ang…PLUS ENDOWMENT: $24,225 · EducationPLUS ENDO…PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $23,225 · Recreation & SportsPARIS DOW…PARIS HENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $22,225 · Food & NutritionREAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $21,225 · Youth DevelopmentCASA INC: $12,525 · Civil Rights
Other$145,971Health$30,950Education$24,225Recreation & Sports$23,225Food & Nutrition$22,225Youth Development$21,225Civil Rights$12,525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLUS ENDOWMENT: $24,225 over 9y, 7.1% of budgetPARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM: $23,225 over 9y, 26% of budgetPARIS HENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK: $22,225 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetREAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER: $21,225 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetTOMORROWS HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC: $18,225 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetEaston's Angels Inc: $12,725 over 7y, 19% of budgetCASA INC: $12,525 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHenry County Helping Hand Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budget
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 PLUS ENDOWMENT ↗
  • Who funds PARIS DOWNTOWN BOXING GYM ↗
  • Who funds PARIS HENRY COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds REAL HOPE YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TOMORROWS HOPE PREGNANCY MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Easton's Angels Inc ↗
  • Who funds CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds Henry County Helping Hand Inc ↗

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.

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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 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Adams Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Adams Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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