Tennessee · Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation I
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $335k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Adams Family Foundation I funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $335k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $332k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $373k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $253k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $53k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $228k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $283k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $341k | 52% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Barnabas Vision Inc | $706,000 | 8 | 43% |
| Center for the Arts Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Special Kids Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Doors of Hope | $30,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rise Up Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The City Schools Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Pat Summitt Foundation | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Read to Succeed | $10,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Journey Home Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Barnabas Vision Inc | $706,000 | 8 | 43% |
| Center for the Arts Inc | $115,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Special Kids Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Doors of Hope | $30,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Boy Scouts of America 560 Middle Tennessee | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rise Up Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| The City Schools Foundation | $20,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Pat Summitt Foundation | $14,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Read to Succeed | $10,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Journey Home Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Possibility Place | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Oaklands Association Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Child Advocacy Center | $4,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Greenhouse Ministries | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity | $4,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Books From Birth Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Bill Rice Ranch Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Young Life | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Journeys in Community Living Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Leadership Rutherford Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 71 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Adams Family Foundation I supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Christy-Houston Foundation Inc · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Adams Family Foundation II · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Burgess Family Charitable · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Coggin Family Foundation · Laroche Family Foundation · The Sixteen Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation
How this is measured
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About Adams Family Foundation I
- How much does Adams Family Foundation I give?
- Adams Family Foundation I reported 23 grants totaling $335,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Adams Family Foundation I fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Education (17%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Adams Family Foundation I's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Barnabas Vision Inc ($706k), Center for the Arts Inc ($115k), Special Kids Inc ($50k).
- Does Adams Family Foundation I fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Adams Family Foundation I accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Adams Family Foundation I?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christy-Houston Foundation Inc, John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc, Charity Circle of Murfreesboro.
- Where is Adams Family Foundation I based?
- Adams Family Foundation I is based in TN.
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