· 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 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 $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS' CENTRAL SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES | $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 |
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-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 +10% since the first grant, against -11% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 38 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.
- 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 ↗
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: Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Adams Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adams Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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