· Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation II
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 $10k13 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| POSSIBILTY PLACE | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| ARCHIES PROMISE | $10,000 |
| WE REMEMBER YOU | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION FINALLY HOME | $10,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $10,000 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $9,000 |
| BEESLEY ANIMAL FOUNDATI | $6,500 |
| STEWART CR HI SCH SPORT | $6,000 |
| FEED AMERICA FIRST | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BAN | $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, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 10% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 10 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, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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 INC6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +257%
- JHJOURNEY HOME INC5× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +170%
- MMMary's Meals USA Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +159%
Funded once
- MTMID TENN CHRISTIAN SCHOone grant, 2020 · $157k
- MTMD TN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $124k
- SCSHILOH CAMPone grant, 2017 · $100k
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.
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…
Establishes and maintains small, permanent, family structured homes for orphaned and at-risk children in cambodia, vietnam, and zimbabwe. homes of love, inc. is committed to providing long-term care to these children emotionally,…
Barrow County Habitat for Humanity is part of a global, nonprofit housing organization operated on Christian principles that seeks to put Gods love into action by building homes, communities and hope.
Hopehouse international provides aid and housing to families adopting orphans in ukraine and adjacent european countries.
Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.
Provide safe housing and training to women who were victims of addiction,sex trafficking, abuse, homelesness or previously incarcerated.
Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.
To build and support orphanages in foreign counties in order to assist needy children to have housing, clothihg, and food to eat.
Habitat for humanity of williamson-maury (hfhwm) seeks to put god's love into action by partnering with communites to build affordable housing, inspiring hope and life-changing stability for families through homeownership.
To engage in transformative christ-centered relatonships with persons in addiction-related prostitution.
To assist former prisoners to transition into society successully
Refuge for women inc is a faith-based organization that provides housing, counseling, and life and work skills training for women who have escaped human trafficking or sexual exploitation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Journey Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary's Meals Usa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 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. 23 of the 106 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.
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENHOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ARCHIES PROMISE ↗
- Who funds THE BARNABAS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE MONARCH ↗
- Who funds JESSE C BEESLEY ANIMAL HUMANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Adams Family Foundation I · John D Floyd Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Charity Circle of Murfreesboro · Burgess Family Charitable · Jennings & Rebecca Jones Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Laroche Family Foundation · The Richard Siegel Foundation · The Sixteen Foundation · Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital
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 II 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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