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Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLLEGE DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| VILLAGE OF NEW CONCORD | $500 |
| MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
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 (FY18–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Adams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- MUMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $197k · revenue +27%
- NRNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +44%
- ZMZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART4× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- EMEAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +57%
- CPCAMP PRESMONT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +39%
- JGJohn Glenn High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.
The organization's mission is to establish effective programs that mobilize and utilize bothpublic and private resources in a proactive and concerted attack on poverty in muskingum county, ohio and its surrounding areas by establishing and…
The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.
Dedicated to supporting the mission of the muskingum watershed conservancy district by providing financial resources that enhance facilities, programs, and conservation efforts on or adjacent to district lands and waters.
The sandusky state theatre was originally created in 1928 and was reinvented several times since its inception. the arts, particularly the performing arts, are a reflection and a documentation of our culture and society. therefore, in…
Housing a museum and cultural center with changing exhibits, permanent exhibits, performing arts and educational classes.
Dedicated to providing residents and visitors a safe, clean, and well maintained facility that promotes health, education, and recreation through a network of quality programs, activities, and amenities.
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county
The artists archives of the western reserve preserves representative bodies of work created by ohio visual artists and, through ongoing research, exhibition and educational programs, actively documents and promotes this cultural heritage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 24 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 MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUERNSEY HEALTH SYSTEMS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS ↗
- Who funds ZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CAMP PRESMONT INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO ↗
- Who funds PRITCHARD LAUGHLIN CIVIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF EAST MUSKINGUM ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO ARTS AND CRAFTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LifeWise Ministries ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY ↗
- Who funds FOREVERDADS ↗
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 Muskingum County Community Foundation · J William & Mary Straker Charitable Fdn · Park National Corporation Foundation · Rogge Cora E Memorial Foundation · Debbie and Larry Triplett Foundation · Robert E Fellers and Leona L Fellers Foundation Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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