· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| WORKFORCE HOUSING COALITION OF THE GREATER SEACOAST | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS WINCHESTER AREA | $1,500 |
| LIBERTY MEMS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| 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 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +51% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 56 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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