· Private foundation
Adams Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS' CENTRAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| YSM OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT | $50,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| NETHERLAND AMERICA FOUNDATION | $14,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF MERIDEN | $10,000 |
| THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALPHA PSI OF CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION | $2,000 |
| THE ORCHARD HOUSE | $300 |
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 (FY17–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +7% since the first grant, against -11% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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; $50k 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
- SHSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2025 · $635k · revenue +175%
- TNTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $164k · revenue +7%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH6× · 2017–2024 · $161k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- JYJuntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Incone grant, 2017 · $60k
- GUGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue -11%
- SJST JAMES SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Strong Communities and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds COMUNIDAD HISPANA DE WALLINGFORD ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAVEN FALL FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE MORY'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR FRONTOTEMPORAL DEGENERATION ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
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.
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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 Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- Comunidad Hispana De Wallingford — 38% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
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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