· Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation I
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNITED WAY RUTH CO | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| LINEBAUGH LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 94 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adams Family Foundation I funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams Family Foundation I. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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