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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE | $500,000 |
| VINCENTIAN SOLIDARITY OFFICE | $290,000 |
| CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD | $253,000 |
| UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $200,000 |
| MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER | $185,000 |
| GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $100,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY HOMES OF CHARITY | $100,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| THE CARDINAL'S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL | $100,000 |
| DOMINICAN MISSIONS SECRETARIAT (BISHOP CHRIS) | $100,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| FRANCISCAN FRIARS OF THE ATONEMENT | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Adams Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 3% of the giving stays in FL; by stated purpose, 0%.
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 +40% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 13 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $730k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +34%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home8× · 2017–2024 · $525k · revenue +40%
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $485k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- COCONGREGATION OF THE MISSION MIDWEST PROVINCEone grant, 2022 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $150k
- NYNew York City Rescue Missionone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue -93%
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Keeping faith with the teachings of the roman catholic church and guided by the bishop of metuchen, saint peter's university hospital is committed to humble service to humanity, especially the poor, through competence and good stewardship…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.
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How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 86 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 COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds New York City Rescue Mission ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Haven 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Somos Healthcare Providers Inc · The Salem Foundation · Knights of Columbus · Koch Foundation Inc · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Express 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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