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Adams Family Foundation I
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNABAS VISION | $95,000 |
| MID TN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $85,000 |
| ADAMS MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| DISCOVERY CENTER | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $15,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GRILS CLUB | $15,000 |
| CHARITY CIRCLE | $10,000 |
| DOORS OF HOPE | $7,500 |
| LINEBAUGH LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY RUTH CO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $727k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TBTHE BARNABAS VISION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $706k · revenue +257% · 43% of their budget
- CFCENTER FOR THE ARTS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +57%
- DODOORS OF HOPE8× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +453%
Funded once
- MTMIDDLE TN CHRISTIAN SCone grant, 2023 · $115k
- MMTCSone grant, 2024 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
Rahab House is deeply committed to the rescue, refuge, and restoration of human trafficking survivors. We provide comprehensive support that encompasses immediate safety and connections to long-term restorative care in alignment with the…
To equip men to initiate and lead for christ in their homes, churches, communities and the marketplace.
To provide guidance and rehabilitation in a christ centered residential setting for persons with addiction
To provide biblical based counseling
Provide advocacy for abused and neglected children in juvenile court.
Tennessee baptist adult homes, inc. (tbah) is a benevolent christian ministry providing quality residential care for senior adults and adults with exceptional needs.
Ministry to unchurched people including a downtown coffee shop
For god's love to be expressed for and by individuals with developmental disabilities through faith based programs and services.
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
To provide quality care, facilities and supportive services for adults with a developmental disability, traumatic brain injury or mental illness. being enabled by god, we strive to provide an intentionally christian environment and program…
The mission of son valley is to build and operate a quality christian community for adults with intellectual disabilities, ministering to their physical, spiritual, mental, vocational and recreational needs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Read to Succeed and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 94 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.
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: 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
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 I 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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