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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.

$147k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Education$205kPhilanthropy$115kFood & Nutrition$51kReligion$46kHealth$20kArts & Culture$16kYouth Development$7kSocial Science$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$781k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$75,000
COLLEGE DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$27,000
COLLEGE DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$12,000
MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,225
GENESIS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE$5,000
MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000
MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
EAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS$2,000
EAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS$2,000
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$1,000
OPEN DOOR MINISTRIES$1,000
MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$500
MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY$250
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $1k → 15%VINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $500 → 15%FOREVERDADS: $50 → 14%FOREVERDADS: $50 → 14%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Adams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Adams Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$464k · 13 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$464k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+8%

Still filing today

69%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
EducationArts & CultureReligionHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MU
    MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $273k · revenue +27%
  • NR
    NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE
    3× · 2022–2025 · $11k · revenue +44%
  • EM
    EAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS
    2× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • CP
    CAMP PRESMONT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +39%
  • JG
    John Glenn High School
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • EM
    EAST MUSKINGUM SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
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
Muskingum County Arts Council

The mission of the council is to create an engaged and vibrant community through arts, humanities, and culture.

Community Improvement
2
Muskingum Economic Opportunity Action Group

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…

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3
Evansville Museum of Arts History & Science

The museum's mission is to enrich lives through preservation, exploration, enlightenment and amazement.

Arts & Culture
4
Muskingum Watershed Conservancy Foundation Inc

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.

Environment
5
Sandusky State Theatre Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Southern Ohio Museum Corporation

Housing a museum and cultural center with changing exhibits, permanent exhibits, performing arts and educational classes.

Arts & Culture
7
The Dayton Art Institute

The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.

Arts & Culture
8
Muskingum Recreation Center

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.

Recreation & Sports
9
The Arts Commission of Greater Toledo I

To develop and promote arts in the greater toledo community

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Marion Community Area New Development-Can Do

Promoting growth and expansion of jobs and community benefits for marion city & county

Community Improvement
11
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
12
Columbus Area Arts Council Inc

To enhance the quality of life in the community by stimulating community interest in art, fostering creation and inquiry throughout columbus, and leading a vibrant arts culture tied to our unique history.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Muskingum County Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $273,450 · EducationMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITYEAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS: $10,000 · EducationCOLLEGE DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $126,464 · OtherCOLLEGE DRIVE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHGUERNSEY HEALTH SYSTEMS: $20,000 · OtherGUERNSEY HEALTH SYSTEMSOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES: $13,500 · OtherOPEN DOOR MINISTRIESNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $11,000 · OtherNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE+10 more: $17,924 · Other+10 moreTHE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $128,775 · PhilanthropyTHE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COM…+2 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $4,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF EAST MUSKINGUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP PRESMONT INC: $4,000 · ReligionLifeWise Ministries: $500 · ReligionVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $1,500 · Human ServicesFOREVERDADS: $100 · Human Services
Education$283,450Other$188,888Philanthropy$132,275Arts & Culture$5,000Religion$4,500Human Services$1,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSKINGUM UNIVERSITY: $273,450 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSKINGUM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $128,775 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGUERNSEY HEALTH SYSTEMS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEAST MUSKINGUM UMBRELLA BOOSTERS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetZANESVILLE MUSEUM OF ART: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP PRESMONT INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRITCHARD LAUGHLIN CIVIC CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVINCENTIAN OHIO ACTION NETWORK: $1,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MUSKINGUM PERRY AND MORGAN COUNTIES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF EAST MUSKINGUM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA MUSKINGUM VALLEY COUNCIL INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWise Ministries: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF BIG SKY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREVERDADS: $100 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Muskingum County …J William & Mary Stra…Park National Corpora…Rogge Cora E Memorial…Debbie and Larry Trip…Robert E Fellers and …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Muskingum County Community FoundationOH17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 25 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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