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Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BURGUNDY FARMS COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $26,500 |
| THE RIVER HOUSE | $7,000 |
| CCAP | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY NAACP SCHOLARSHIPS | $5,000 |
| WPS TEACH FOR TOMORROW | $5,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOODBANK | $2,000 |
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $2,000 |
| LIBERTY MEMS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS WINCHESTER AREA | $1,500 |
| WORKFORCE HOUSING COALITION OF THE GREATER SEACOAST | $1,500 |
| THE FIRST UNITERIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY OF EXETER | $1,000 |
| WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER | $1,000 |
| THE KIDS CLUBS OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY INC | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TRTHE RIVER HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +205%
- BFBURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +38%
- TLTHE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE8× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TGTHE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue -33%
- WPWINCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $15k
- WAWinchester Area Temporary Thermal Sheltone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Rappahannock elder housing corporation owns and operates leaflin lane apartments. these subsidized one-bedroom units in culpeper, va are available for rent to persons age 62 and older who meet the low income criteria established by hud.
Provide a community owned and operated shelter for a safe haven from domestic violence for women and their children in beaufort county, nc. provide counseling and guidance to allow these women to make decisions about their future.
Housing loans to lower income persons
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Build affordable housing for low wage earner families of middlesex county, virginia.
The acting, directing, and writing of staged plays to bring high quality entertainment and culture to our community through a variety of endeavors in the performing arts.
Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development
VCDC delivers vital financial resources and support while collaborating with local organizations dedicated to social impact, ensuring the creation of affordable homes in vibrant neighborhoods where everyone can thrive.
The artisans center of virginia develops and implements systems and strategies to improve economic outcomes for virginia artisans and their communities while assisting them in promoting their local artisan culture
Creating spaces where contemporary art inspires connection, sparks creativity, and fosters innovation.
Promotion and encouragement of art in virginia's northern neck and surrounding area. assisting local artists through workshops and displays.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Workforce Housing Coalition of the Greater Seacoas. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 56 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.
- Who funds THE RIVER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BURGUNDY FARM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS - WINCHESTER AREA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER AREA TEMPORARY THERMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTE LIBRE VA INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE HOUSING COALITION OF THE GREATER SEACOAS ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS FORUM ↗
- Who funds Liberty Memes Foundation ↗
- Who funds BELLE MEADE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPU INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · United Way of Northern Shenandoah Valley Inc · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Valley Health System · Fhi Services · The Community Foundation of the Northern Shenandoah Valley · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation
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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